Duey, Kathleen

In 1933, when her father's foot injury makes it impossible for him to do farm work for a while, thirteen-year-old Agnes steps in, proving herself and revealing her understanding of him.

In 1847, when her mother's remarriage sends them on a difficult journey to California, Willow is swept overboard fording the South Platte River and must survive and search for her family.

In San Francisco near the beginning of the twentieth century, Alexia faces a moral dilemma when her con man father tries to cheat the widow who has been like a mother to Alexia.

When thirteen-year-old Amelina saves the life of a young Yankee spy found injured near her Louisiana home in 1863, the orphaned girl creates a dangerous situation for herself and her uncle.

In 1773, twelve-year-old Silence works to please her mother through household chores and weekly etiquette lessons in hopes of spending time with her beloved horse, Lily, while the men of Boston, including her Loyalist father and brother, discuss a possible war over taxation without representation.

Janey's peaceful life on Oahu is suddenly and forever changed as the bombs begin to drop from the sky on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

A year after their previous trip, the Time Soldiers enter the portal again and are transported to a treasure-filled cave, where their attempt to rescue a girl from pirates gets them in big trouble.

In 1827 in Idaho twelve-year-old Celou Sudden Shout, who is half French and half Shoshone, attempts to rescue her mother and two younger brothers from the Crow warriors who kidnapped them.

The small piece of gold which Anisett carries in her pocket causes grave danger for her family living in the rough world of the California gold camps.

Violence, heartache, and three devasting hurricanes ravaged Madelaine LeBlanc's life in late summer 1860. In the luxurious Creole world of French food, meadow picnics, and silk-gown veranda parties, her father plots her marriage to a rich heir, and with the infamous Nightriders he secretly terroizes the poor Cajuns in the swamps.