historical fiction

Having grown up in a California commune, Bliss sees her aloof grandmother's Atlanta world as a foreign country, but she is determined to be nice as a freshman at an elite high school, which makes her the perfect target for Sandy, a girl obsessed with the occult.

A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, in New York, New England, and finally in California during the Gold Rush.

A fictionalized account of a Biblical story in which an Egyptian princess rescues a Hebrew infant who becomes a prophet of his people while his sister finds her true self as a priestess to the Egyptian gods.

Relates the adventures of members of the Sackett family in the frontier West.

Tell Sackett runs into trouble at the ferry across the Colorado river. There is a pretty woman in trouble, someone wants to steal his gold, and the desert is brutal.

Tell Sackett's attempt to rescue his nephew from his Apache kidnappers is complicated by his fear that the boy's mother may actually be sending him into an ambush.

Forward by F. R. Lewis ; bibliography.