Rescue on the Oregon Trail

By Kate Messner, Kelley McMorris (illustrator),

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Meet Ranger! He's a time-traveling golden retriever who has a nose for trouble . . . and always saves the day!

Ranger has been trained as a search-and-rescue dog, but can't officially pass the test because he's always getting distracted by squirrels during exercises. One day, he finds a mysterious…

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2 authors picked Rescue on the Oregon Trail as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love books that mix fact and fiction, mystery and adventure, and include real-life settings and history. Kate Messner’s great Ranger in Time series, starting with Rescue on the Oregon Trail does all of this incredibly well. These books do a terrific job of making history both personal and present to today’s readers. Interested readers can delve deeper by locating landmarks mentioned in the book on a map, in person, or via the internet. Add on top of the fact that the main character is a time-traveling golden retriever, and young readers can’t lose anything but time otherwise spent in…

I love it because it’s a time-traveling dog! What’s not to like? Ranger proves to himself and the friends he encounters that a scrappy, impulse-challenged dog can help you through the worst of times. Plus, it’s a series, so you know Ranger will live so that he can make it to the next book.

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