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Othello

a novel
1998
A prose retelling of Shakespeare's play in which a jealous general is duped into thinking that his wife has been unfaithful, with tragic consequences.

Beyond the Burning Time

1996
When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England village, twelve-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from execution.

Dakota dream

1995
After being shuttled between foster homes and institutions for most of his life, fifteen-year-old Floyd Rayfield escapes from a mental institution to a Sioux reservation, desperately seeking a family and a home.

Local news

1994
A collection of thirteen short stories about the everyday lives of Mexican American young people in California's Central Valley.

Orfe

1994
Enny tells of her relationship with Orfe, an unusually talented musician, and of the love between Orfe and Yuri, a recovering addict.

Arilla Sun Down

1995
A young girl, half African-American and half Indian, lives in a small town where her life revolves around family, school, and friends.

Justice and her brothers

1998
When Justice's brothers start acting strange, she vows to discover what is wrong with them, but as the summer passes, she realizes that her whole family has extrasensory powers that are too much for Justice and her brothers to handle.

Up country

1998
When his mother's drinking problem causes him to spend several months with country relatives in upstate Wisconsin, sixteen-year-old Carl begins to build a new life for himself, only to see it threatened by a serious mistake from his painful past.

Between a rock and a hard place

1999
Although neither fifteen-year-old Mark Severson nor his diabetic cousin Randy are looking forward to the canoe trip that is a family rite of passage, they begin to enjoy themselves as they make their way through Minnesota's lake country, until the trip becomes a fight for survival.

Dustland

1998
Four children, all possessing extraordinary mental powers, are projected far into the future to a bleak region called Dustland.

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