My books are novels which retell some little known piece of United States history. Homeschools and traditional classrooms have used them to explore subjects across the curriculum.  Follow the links to each book page to find reviews, discussion questions, and suggested educational activities.

Comfort
World War II is over and Ann Fay Honeycut has new challenges – mostly her relationship with her father, home from the war, and the emotional and physical demands of polio.

Healing Water
This is the story of Pia, a thirteen year old Hawaiian boy who is banished to the Kalaupapa leprosy settlement. Like so many others in the settlement he is in a fight for survival.  He finds he must choose between anger and forgiveness, goodwill and hatred.

Blue
When teenager Ann Fay takes over as “man of the house” for her absent soldier father, she struggles to keep the family and herself together in the face of personal tragedy and the 1940s polio epidemic in North Carolina.

Best Friends Forever
Rhoda Landis goes to live with her grandparents for one school year and meets Nadia Kuropas, a Ukrainian girl. The two of them discover that although they are different, they also have much in common.