Holland, Isabelle

A fatherless fourteen-year-old boy develops an unusual relationship with the man living near his summer home who helps him prepare his entrance exams to boarding school.

Feeling overweight, unattractive, and unloved by her adoptive father, Bridget learns to put aside her escapist fantasies and live in the real world after uncovering the secrets of a mysterious house.

Meg Grant's sixteenth year is a time of love and loss and new understanding.

As suspicion points to her husband, the Reverend Claire Aldington and Lieutenant O'Neill of the NYPD investigate two baffling murders at Christmas time.

A fatherless fourteen-year-old boy develops an unusual relationship with the man living near his summer home who helps him prepare his entrance exams to boarding school.

During the New York Draft Riot of 1863, a young Irish Catholic girl helps an African-American make a daring escape from an angry mob.

When her beloved seeing-eye dog is kidnapped, Jocelyn, orphaned and blind since the age of twelve, determines to solve the mystery surrounding his disappearance.

Orphaned by their mother's death, two Irish Catholic sisters find a home with a kind Protestant couple on the Kansas frontier, but their new life is suddenly threatened by the appearance of their uncle, who is determined to take them back to New York and their "true" religion.