Leroy Ninker Saddles Up
Tales from Deckawoo Drive Series
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Illustrator: Chris Van Dusen
Book 1 in the Tales from Deckawoo Drive series
Pages: 96
Published: 2014
Age: 6+
Yippie-i-oh! Saddle up for the first in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from Kate DiCamillo's acclaimed Mercy Watson series.
Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse – until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it's love at first sight. Maybelline loves spaghetti and sweet nothings, and she loves Leroy, too. But when Leroy forgets the third and final rule of caring for Maybelline, disaster ensues. Can Leroy wrestle fate to the ground, rescue the horse of his heart, and lasso loneliness for good?
Minnesota Book Award Nominee for Young People's Literature (2015); Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award Nominee for Grades K-3 (2016)
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About the Tales from Deckawoo Drive Series
Books in series order
- 1.Leroy Ninker Saddles Up(2014)
- 2.Francine Poulet Meets the Ghost Raccoon(2015)
- 3.Where Are You Going, Baby Lincoln?(2016)
- 4.Eugenia Lincoln and the Unexpected Package(2017)
- 5.Stella Endicott and the Anything-Is-Possible Poem(2020)
- 6.Franklin Endicott and the Third Key(2021)
- 7.Mercy Watson Is Missing!(2023)
Reading age: 6+ years
This series should be read in order.
Yippie-i-oh! Saddle up for a spin-off series starring favourite characters from Kate DiCamillo's acclaimed Mercy Watson series.
Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse – until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it's love at first sight. Maybelline loves spaghetti and sweet nothings, and she loves Leroy, too. But when Leroy forgets the third and final rule of caring for Maybelline, disaster ensues. Can Leroy wrestle fate to the ground, rescue the horse of his heart, and lasso loneliness for good?
Join Leroy, Maybelline, and a cast of familiar characters – Stella, Frank, Mrs. Watson, and everyone’s favorite porcine wonder, Mercy – for some hilarious and heartfelt horsing around on Deckawoo Drive.