historical fiction

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The mountain that walked

2005
The year is 1903, and Charlie, on the run from false accusations, ends up in Frank, a coal-mining town about to experience disaster.

The flags of war

2004
Two fifteen-year-old cousins, Nate in South Carolina and Walt in Canada, know nothing of each other until they are united by the Civil War and a runaway slave from Nate's plantation.

Battle scars

2005
Presents a sequel to "The Flags of War" in which fifteen-year-old cousins, Nate from South Carolina, and Walt from Canada, go their separate ways after the Battle of Shiloh, only to be reunited, along with Sunday, a runaway slave from Nate's plantation, at the Confederacy's notorious Libby Prison.

Caged eagles

2000
Fourteen-year-old Tadashi Fukushima, forced to move with his family from their fishing village in British Columbia to a Vancouver internment center during World War II, struggles to make sense of the racism and injustice to which Japanese immigrants are being subjected.

The Devil and his boy

2001
In 1593, thirteen-year-old Tom travels through the English countryside to London, where he falls in with a troupe of actors and finds himself in great danger from several sources.

Storm child

2003
Isobel finds herself torn between her European upbringing and her Peigan heritage and sets off across the west in hopes of discovering a place where she belongs.

Search of the moon king's daughter

a novel
2003
In order to have money for the drams of opiate that take away the pain of her injured hand and of poverty, Emmaline Rote's mother sells her young son, Tommy, to a master chimney sweep. Emmaline is determined to find her brother and to save him from the short life of a chimney sweep.

Redemption

2004
Chronicles the arduous journey of a twelve-year-old English girl and her mother as they flee with other religious protesters to the New World in the early 1500's, and the heartbreak and hope they find when they arrive.

Gilbert & Sullivan set me free

2003
Libby Dodge, the youngest inmate at Sherborn Women's Prison in Massachusetts in the early 1900s, gains insights into her past and future after she becomes a member of the prison choir and participates in the production of the operetta "The Pirates of Penzance.".

The last full measure

2000
A dramatization of the confrontations between Robert E. Lee, Lawrence Chamberlain, and Ulysses S. Grant during the last two years of the Civil War.

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