The Wild Wild West

The twenty-first Geronimo Stilton adventure crosses the Atlantic: a first trip to America, a working ranch, and a nervous mouse who has decided he wants to be a cowboy. Family and friends come along, the ranch does not cooperate, and the holiday turns into a run of predicaments that ask for courage and cooperation. The frontier setting gives the illustrations plenty to work with, and the brief chapters keep momentum for children who are still building stamina with longer books. At its core: • A first American journey, complete with horses, dust and ranch life • Problem-solving and teamwork built into the plot rather than stated • Artwork and lettering that carry a good share of the storytelling • Sentence length tuned for readers around seven to ten years old Suits independent readers, primary-school libraries and teachers looking for light fiction that quietly grows vocabulary. Find it at Boipoka.