cover image Sunshine Rider

Sunshine Rider

Rick Lynden Hardman, Ric Lynden Hardman. Laurel Leaf Library, $4.99 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-440-22812-7

This tale, set in 1881, features an apprentice cook who turns vegetarian and poses as a doctor. ""A comical narrator and a fearless adventurer, Wylie is just the protagonist to stand the western genre on its head,"" said PW. Ages 12-up. (Aug.) r