Hoobler, Dorothy

Provides the history of and facts about the Great Pyramids of Egypt.

Samurai Seikei and Judge Ooka, his foster-father, search for seven men who have seven parts of a map tattooed on their backs, but when they put the pieces of the map together, Seikei and Judge Ooka learn of a dangerous location.

When the Redcoats occupy her house in Philadelphia, young Annie Macdougal finds a way to help General Washington's troops at Valley Forge.

Surveys the concept of the right of privacy, its history, the laws protecting it, the effects of computers and other technological developments, and the conflict of rights in such issues as national security and police investigations.

Examines the history of Vietnam's relations with other nations, the involvement of the United States in the conflict, and the effects of the war.

In his latest adventure in eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old samurai apprentice Seikei, with the help of a servant girl and an imperious old man, sets out to rescue the young Emperor Yasuhito from his kidnappers.

Unable to endure the discrimination in his small Mississippi town when he returns home from serving in France during World War I, Flo's father moves the family to Chicago, where jazz symbolizes the freedom he hopes they will find.

In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.