historical fiction

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Sherwood

Maid Marian doesn't know how she'll go on now that Robin of Locksley is dead. But the people of Locksley are persecuted by the Sheriff of Nottingham and Guy of Gisborne, the sheriff's right hand, wants to take Robin's place as the Lord of Locksley and Marian's fianc?. In order to protect the people that depended on Robin, Marian takes on the cloak of Robin Hood and becomes her own hero.

The Invisible war

a World War I tale on two scales
2019
In 1916 on the World War I Western Front, Annie Barnaby nurses combat-wounded and sick soldiers but a smaller and equally deadly battle is occuring in her intestines as her phages fight dysentery.

Echo

a novel
2015
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.

Roll of thunder, hear my cry

Young Cassie Logan endures humiliation and witnesses the horrors of a KKK cross-burning rampage before she fully understands the importance her family places on having land of their own.

Johnny Tremain

2009
After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.

The attacks of September 11, 2001

Lucas has to tell his dad's friend Benny, a firefighter and former football star, that his parents do not want him playing football anymore, and he takes the train into New York City to talk to Benny, but everything changes when the Twin Towers are attacked.

The red flag

When ten-year-old Alice Bradford is found hiding on Captain Boswell's pirate ship, she expects the captain to kill her. Instead, he keeps her captive while he tries to outrun the navy which seems to be closing in on him. If he's caught, he knows he'll be executed for piracy, a fact that could be the driving force behind his murderous behaviors.

Under the quilt of night

A young girl flees from the farm where she has been worked as a slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in the north.

The paint box

Marietta, the daughter of a Venetian artist, lives in disguise as a boy in order to wander the city and learn to paint like her father, and she comes to realize the real value of her freedom when she meets an equally talented young boy who is the slave of a sea captain.

Virgie goes to school with us boys

In the post-Civil War South, a young African American girl is determined to prove that she can go to school just like her older brothers.

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