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King shoes and clown pockets

1989
Two ten-year-old boys from rural Alabama, each with his own personal problems, become friends who face the vicissitudes of life together.

Coming-and-going men

four tales
1985
Four short stories present the adventures of itinerant artisans and tradesmiths as they travel through a small New England town in the year 1800.

Here at the Scenic-Vu Motel

1988
In his senior year at Idaho's Pineville High School, Jake finds himself in charge of six other teenagers who must board at the tacky Scenic-Vu Motel, since they live too far from town to commute from their homes to school every day.

Ivanhoe

1989
This is a retelling of the adventures of Ivanhoe, in 1194, the year of Richard the Lion-Hearted's return.

Jo's boys

1960

The Ballymara flood

1996
Pandemonium reigns when a boy's bathtub overflows and floods the Irish town of Ballymara.

Abenaki captive

1994
In 1752, nineteen-year-old Abenaki warrior Ogistin is present when a band of his people capture an English trapper, John Stark, and as Stark is carried into captivity in Canada a bond of hate and competition develops between him and Ogistin.

Juneteenth jamboree

1995
Cassandra and her family have moved to her parents' hometown in Texas, but it doesn't feel like home to Cassandra until she experiences Juneteenth, a Texas tradition celebrating the end of slavery.

Calico Captive

1957
An Englishwoman, Miriam Willard, becomes a captive during the French and Indian War in 1754. After a harrowing march north to Montreal she discovers a city filled with the intrigue of war.

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