historical fiction

During a thirteen hundred mile journey from Kansas to the Bitterroot Mountains, Caleb O'Toole faces deserts, tornadoes, wolves, and the infamous Blackstone Gang as he tries to honor his promise to his dying mother and keep his sisters safe.

In 1937, twelve-year-old Patsy and her family travel from Detroit to Tennessee to visit her grandmother. They leave in a first-class train car and Patsy is shocked to discover that they must change seats and ride in the cramped "colored car" when they get further south. When Patsy returns home she examines her experience in the colored car and the subtle injustices her family faces in Detroit.

A twelve-year-old runaway slave is torn between desire for freedom and affection for the woman who has protected him, as the impending Battle of Sabine Pass threatens to engulf their part of Texas.

In 1908, Kate and Ellen set up shop and begin to sell handmade Irish linens to a select San Francisco clientele.

Emma must put aside her grief over the deaths of her parents and sisters in a fire in order to fight for her own survival and that of her little brother.

Emma must summon up all her courage to face the future when the deaths of her parents in 1830 leaves her and her little brother facing a new life with their aunt in York.

Sarah Morgan is a spirited nineteen-year-old, loyal to the Confederacy, when Union forces arrive in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1862, forcing her and her family on a perilous journey to New Orleans. Includes excerpts from the actual diary on which the story is based.

Fictional diary of a fourteen-year-old girl accompanying a cattle drive along the Chisolm Trail in 1878.

A fictionalized account of one family's escape from slavery via the Underground Railroad in western Virginia in August of 1843.

In 1539, Kitty Tylney and her best friend Cat Howard--the audacious, self-proclaimed "Queen of Misrule"--both servants to the Duchess of Norfolk, move to the court of King Henry VIII, who fancies Cat, and when Cat becomes queen, Kitty must learn to navigate the complexities and dangers of the royal court.