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Journey to Goliad
The fourth in an ongoing series for YA/middle readers, Journey to Goliad once again transports the trio of Jackie, Hannah…
Book of Shadows
1628. When Bess Hawksmith’s mother is hanged as a witch there is only one person to whom she can turn…
Abandon
In 2009, Abigail Foster, a journalist enticed by the prospect of a good story, is recruited by her estranged father,…
What Would Jane Austen Do?
Eleanor Pottinger has traveled to England for a Jane Austen convention. Rather than giving her costume history lecture as she’d…
Backtracked
In Backtracked the author makes use of the popularity of time travel in fiction to drive home lessons for everyone…
Out of the Shadows
As Catholics in the time of Protestant Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Dyer and her family are shunned and suffer for…
Pharaoh
This book starts in Jerusalem in 586 BC. The Kingdom of Judah is caught up in a violent war with…
The Invention of Everything Else
In 1943 Louisa and her father Walter live alone in a house in Hell’s Kitchen. Louisa is a chambermaid…
The Time Thief
Second in the The Gideon Trilogy, The Time Thief also works well as a stand- alone novel. As a…
Nick of Time
Set in the summers of both 1939 and 1805 in the English Channel, Bell has fashioned a boy’s adventure…
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