Logan West: Printer’s Devil is set in 1874 Wichita, Kansas.  In this father-son story, world famous legends Jesse James and Wyatt Earp appear as do local legends Marshall Murdock, Darius Munger and James Mead.  Twelve-year-old Logan West learns a new trade as a printer’s devil for The Wichita City Eagle while adjusting to life in a cowtown. Mondo Publishing markets this book as a 5th grade novel study.  You can purchase this book by visiting www.mondopub.com or by calling (888) 88-MONDO.

-Review by Mark David Bradshaw, October 17, 2006

Christie Merriman Breault packs a lot of local history and period detail into Logan West, and she also sets up an interesting character contrast between bookish Logan and his hard-working father. While the son loves words and writing best of all, the father is illiterate and employs all sorts of clever evasions to cover up his lack of learning. Amid all the Wild West headlines in this youth novel, the central drama spins out of whether the two West men can come together on some common ground. The result is a local story, suited to young readers of about 9 to 12 years of age, that evokes a strong sense of place and explores what life and work might have been like on the Kansas prairies back in the founding days of Wichita.