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Tucket's Gold (Tuckets Adventures)

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Tucket's Gold
I am writing about the book called Tucket's Gold. This book is an adventure for the grades of 4 - 6th.

My book Tucket's Gold takes place after the mexican war. Along the of the Oregon Trail. Francis the main character is trying to find his parents along the Oregon Trail with his two friends he found in the other books on his way towards the Oregon Trail.

One night Francis was watching out when a snake bit him. He and his friends Billie and Lottie were taken to this pueblo village to be treated for the snake bite. Billie and this pueblo boy teaches Billie how to hunt with bow and arrow.

Towards the end of the book they find some gold and silver and some wild ponies. One day they were riding the ponies towards the oregon trail when Courtweiler and Dubs that are two bad guys meet up with them and they try to kill Francis when Billie out of nowhere he shoots them with arrows and killed them. Then they were back to head towards the oregon trail.

I would give this book a 5 stars if it was a 5 star scale.

(*don't read this if you haven't read the previous books... SPOILER ALERT*)

Book #4, "Tucket's Gold", starts with Francis, Lottie and Billie in the desert plains, on foot and without food and water. They are moving as fast as they can, hoping to evade the Comancheros who still hope to sell them to the Comanches.


This book, for a change, is a little slower paced than it's siblings. Not that there isn't excitement, but it's time for Lottie and Billie to 'come into their own', and for the reader to learn a little more about the Pueblo Indians.

For myself, I really enjoyed this book, and thought the ending was fantastic.

It's a good series for younger readers. As I've noted before, the 4th graders at my children's school all read the series. And I've noted that many reviews are by middle-school teachers who have selected the books for their history and literature classes.

a Pam T mini-review
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This must read book is excellent for kid and adult readers. Tucket's Gold has action and adventure for anyone ready to pick up a book. The plot is very well put and the series connects very well from book three to book four. A young girl named Lottie, her younger brother Billy, and an older boy of fifteen years named Francis travel through the desert escaping a group of foul disgusting mean men called the comancheros they run to a spot of woods to hide where they later find gold. Francis gets hurt and a tribe of Indians nurse him back to health while Billy learns how to be more like an Indian.

Fifteen-year-old boy Francis Tucket is stuck in the middle of the Oregon Trail with no water and food. On his way home he finds two children abandoned and all alone whose names is Billy and Lottie. Francis, Billy, and Lottie are in danger because these people called the Comancheros are trying to kill them. The main character is Francis Tucket who is an Indian captive, is very smart outdoors, and he isn't a funny person or an exciting person. This book takes place in 1847-1849 in the Oregon Trail. The genre of the book is realistic fiction with no pictures. The theme of the book is to make the most of what you have even if the situation is bad. I would rate this book 3 stars out of 5 stars because the book was a little slow threw the book. I would recommend this book to people who like outdoors, or to fourth and fifth graders because it is very easy.

One day Francis Tucket was sleeping and he heard something. So, he picked up a bucket and a shovel then went to the cave. When Francis got to the cave he kept walking further and further and he said,''Man this goes on forever and ever."Soon Francis started shoveling and he heard the same thing he heard before. He started to get a little scared so he ran back out of the cave but he heard the sound again. But he tripped over a small rock and hit another rock. One day later he started shoveling again and found a nugget of gold so he ran home and told his mom and dad and they said,''Wow it's another toy".
Here are some ways I recommend this book to other people. I think you should read this book because I liked it and therefore I would highly recommend this book. I recommend this book because it's a scary book to read.

I read the book tucket's Gold.This book is fantastic.My story is about a boy named Francis that is kiddnaped by a group of Indians but he escapes from them. He finds two kids in an abonded wagon and takes care of them.
I learned some interesting facts reading this book. I read that if you are bit by a poisonis snake you have to get the poison out of your blood within minutes or you will die. I learned that you have to shoot a deer in the heart or the meat will rott. Also, I learned that in order to shoot a gun the gun powder has to be completly dry or it won't shoot very far.
I would recommend this book for three reasons. This book is full of an action packed story about the old west. It has an amazing adventure about two young boys and one girl who stick together and survive in the prairie wast land. It is full of true facts of how people lived and survived back in the old west.
Tuckets Gold is an amazing book.

Dawn is a fifthteen year old boy that is in charge of taki\eing care of two children. Francis,Lottie,and Billy had no food or water and her had no chance to get any of them items. He has been separated from his family for over a year before his dad has died cause he got cholera and his family has abandoned his family. Grimes had help them to esape from the comarcheros. If the comarcheros caught Grimes or they saw him the would know that francis and the children werent with him. That means they would turn around and come an try to get the children back then the children meant money cause they could become sold or traded into slavery. Francis away from Lottie and Billy cause they had short legs and they were carrying the dried meat and the leftover hide. They had to walk carefully threw the desert cause they didn't want to kick up any dust for any body to see. He carried a rifle in his arm and he study and found birds and rabbits and Deer. Francis checked the cap on teh nipple of his rifle and he postedit down tightly with his thumbs. I really like the book so i recommend this to any one that like to read.

This book (Tucket's Gold) showed me what it is like to be alone with no parents in the middle of no ware. One thing was that the main character (Francis Tucket) was the oldest of the three kids a brother (Billy) and a sister (Lottie). All alone in the middle of no ware running away from the Comanchero outlaws a ruthless gang. Then they make it to the forest they where trying to reach. They set up camp and Francis went out away from camp and hunted a deer but it didn't die until twenty minutes after Francis shot it. Then they skinned the deer and they ate the deer for the next three days. But I thought the theme was to not make every situation worst than it has to be, So make the best out of a bad situation the is what I think the theme of this book would be.

I WAS SURPRISED BY THE HUMOR IN THIS BOOK ABOUT THE OREGON TRAIL. MOST OTHER BOOKS ON THIS TOPIC ARE VERY SERIOUS. I COULD NOT HELP BUT READ THE REST OF THE SERIES. THE FRANCIS TUCKET SERIES IS ABOUT FRANCIS TUCKET WHO IS KIDNAPPED BY PAWNEE INDIANS, AND RESCUED BY A ONE-ARMED MOUNTAIN MAN CALLED GRIMES. HE GOES ABOUT A WILD ADVENTURE WITH COMANCHEROS, MURDEROUS SOLDIERS, THIEVES, AND A BLOOD-THIRSTY PAWNEE NAMED BRAID. ON THE WAY HE MEETS UP WITH FRIENDS AND FINDS THE LONG LOST TREASURE OF A SPANISH CONQUISTADOR. THIS BOOK IS THE BEST BOOK ABOUT THE OREGON TRAIL THAT I HAVE READ. I GIVE IT TWO THUMBS UP AND A LITTLE MORE!

I liked this book because it was pretty strait forward. Also it had good detail in it. The book was very specific. Overal it was a very good book.

The best part of the book was when they found the gold. When they walked into the village and found the gold, I thought that was the best part. If I found all that gold, I would be the richest kid ever.

The best story element I thought was the characters.The characters in the story were very interesting.They seemed just like me when I was a kid. I was always up to something.For example,he was always stealing things.I steal thing from sister all the time.