1775-1865

Small-town librarian Glynis Tryon, only marginally concerned with whispers of the Civil War in the spring of 1861, becomes closely acquainted with the evils of slavery when she attempts to help an abused and frightened indentured servant girl who is accused of stabbing her master.

Uses the story of the friendship between a young Mohawk Indian named Joseph Brant and Samuel Kirkland, the son of a colonial clergyman, in eighteenth-century New England to highlight the interactions between Native Americans and colonists in the years following the American Revolution.

In 1854, while the rest of Seneca Falls, New York, gears up for the opening of a new theater, librarian/sleuth/women's rights activist Glynis Tryon investigates the death of a freed slave and discovers shocking secrets about several abolitionists.

Examines the firsthand accounts of African-Americans, as well as other period sources, to present overviews of African-American daily life and culture during the last decades of slavery and during Reconstruction, including a special section on the Civil War.

Free-thinking librarian Glynis Tryon is in the midst of organizing the historic Woman's Rights Convention of 1848 to be held in the small town of Seneca Falls, New York, when a body turns up in the canal, drawing her attention and talents toward sleuthing.

In 1838, twelve-year-old Jake Webber works to help his family prepare for the harsh winter while also keeping the existence of his disabled younger brother a secret.

In Boston in 1775, orphaned fourteen-year-old Hannah is indentured to the family of a British general and begins attending secret meetings disguised as a boy, then passing messages and warnings to the revolutionaries using her beloved horse Promise.

Fictional diary entries recount the true-life efforts of Louisa May Alcott's family to establish a utopian community known as Fruitlands in Massachusetts in 1843.

Imagines the childhood and youth of "Prosser's Gabriel", a courageous and intelligent blacksmith in post-Revolutionary Richmond, Virginia, who roused thousands of African American slaves, like himself, to rebel.

Describes the history of the Georgia colony and the daily lives of its people, covering its Native American tribes, the European settlers, early challenges, the Revolution, and statehood, and includes a recipe, activity, time line, glossary, and further reading list.