The study guides enrich Andi’s adventures in this series for teens:

Andrea Carter is back in this series for readers ages 11 and up. More exciting adventures with an older, teen Andi, on the Circle C ranch in 1880s California. Will she finally realize her dream of helping run the ranch, or does God have other plans for this spunky teen? Follow Andi from age 14 to 18, as she discovers that breaking horses is far easier than growing up.

Study Guide Contents:

Thick as Thieves – 1

• Story Synopsis grammar review-eight parts of speech, friendship bookmark
• Chapters 1-4 whorls, characterization part 1, foaling, crossword puzzle
• Chapters 5–7 synonyms/antonyms, 1880s arithmetic; characterization part 2, journals
• Chapters 8-10 digging deeper, characterization part 3: dialogue, lice
• Chapters 11-13 digging deeper, farrier facts, training a foal, leeches and blood-letting
• Chapters 14-16 similes, Fresno—Andi’s town, eight parts of speech
• Chapters 17-19 cattle rustling, Arkansas geography, digging deeper: what ifs?
• Chapters 20-22 digging deeper: setting, canyons, canyon crossword puzzle
• Chapters 23-26 just for fun: the Palace Hotel, dime novels

Heartbreak Trail – 2

• Story Synopsis punctuation review, endurance bookmark
• Chapters 1–4 geography: cattle drive route, La Quinceañera, fiction story elements
• Chapters 5–7 daring women of the west, the serpent of Bear Lake, Spanish part 1
• Chapters 8-10 cowboy songs, punctuation practice, cattle-drive jobs, trail food
• Chapters 11-13 character sketch, Kaweah Oak Preserve, old-west camels, Spanish part 2
• Chapters 14-16 lost lakes, character trait, chuck wagon & recipes, punctuation, Spanish 3
• Chapters 17-19 trail hand job review and journal, let’s write, Spanish part 4
• Chapters 20-22 synonyms/antonyms, photo journey Tehachapi, Fort Tejon & riddles
• Chapters 23-25 story problem and plot events, Los Angeles, Tehachapi Loop, let’s write

The Last Ride – 3

• Story Synopsis punctuation review, forgiveness bookmark
• Chapters 1-4 Pandora’s box, 1880s railroad routes
• Chapters 5-7 transcontinental railroad routes and math, character clues
• Chapters 8-10 human heart, world’s fairs and map, Frank and Jesse James and crossword puzzle
• Chapters 11-13 New York City, Brooklyn Bridge, Let’s write: what if?
• Chapters 14-16 19^th century cockfighting, characterizations
• Chapters 17-19 giants in the land Bible study, injuries then and now
• Chapters 20-22 Journey to the Centre of the Earth, five story elements of The Last Ride
• Chapters 23-26 New York City Travel Trivia

Courageous Love – 4

• Story Synopsis paragraph writing, courage bookmark
• Chapters 1–4 trick riding, University of California Berkeley, barbed wire, dance quadrille
• Chapters 5-7 cattle breeds, let’s write: paragraphs
• Chapters 8-10 wind pumps, baking soda helps and hints, character clues
• Chapters 11-13 old west prisons, where in the U.S? Cheshire cats
• Chapters 14-16 an eye for an eye Bible study, the real-life outlaw, Tomaso Procopio Rodendo
• Chapters 17-19 derringer pistols, crossword puzzle, Spanish lesson
• Chapters 20-22 vocabulary wrap-up puzzle, The Pilgrim’s Progress
• Chapters 23-26 let’s write: the worst outlaw, point of view, Andi’s journey geography

Yosemite at Last: And Other Tales from Memory Creek Ranch – 5

• Book Synopsis paragraph writing, love bookmark
• Stories 1-2 Wawona Hotel, Yosemite, folk music, descriptive paragraphs
• Stories 3-5 types of sentences, the minotaur and the labyrinth, maze
• Stories 6-7 rattlesnake fast facts; rattlesnake U.S. habitats, crossword puzzle
• Stories 8-9 similes, persuasive paragraphs, mini-Bible study: red sky signs
• Stories 10-11 write an epilogue, anthrax, anthrax crossword
• Stories 12-13 irony, mini-Bible study: taming the tongue, synonyms & antonyms
• Stories 14-15 idioms, fire and magnifying glass video, “bio” poems, try a recipe

Stranger in the Glade: And More Tales from Memory Creek Ranch – 6

• Book Synopsis grammar review-eight parts of speech, gratitude bookmark
• Stories 1-2 Song “Auld Lang Syne,” geography to Hawaii, Spanish, 8 parts of speech
• Stories 3-4 descriptive paragraph, acrostics, mini-Bible: thief on the cross, border collies
• Stories 5-6 Arabian Nights, Persia, ice harvesting, how-to paragraph, vocabulary crossword
• Stories 7-8 horse colors word search, horse breeds, riddles
• Stories 9-10 spirituals, “Wreck of the Hesperus,” sarcasm, concussions, smelling salts
• Stories 11-12 make peach cobbler, rabies, rabies word search
• Stories 13-14 alliteration, expository paragraph (or essay), try a recipe