Life in Texas during the Civil War was hard enough for motherless Hannah Dandridge and her little brother and sister even without the Indian raids. Hannah’s father had gone to visit her ailing grandmother, so responsibility for the children and the family ranch fell on her shoulders. Herbert Lockhart, her father’s partner, was doing […]
Reviews: Fiction
Review: Prize of My Heart by Lisa Norato
Early one 1815 morning Lorena Huntley met a stranger in her father’s ship yards. The same morning, Captain Brogan Talvis encountered a skinny scullery maid, and five year old Drew felled a giant with his slingshot, just like David felled Goliath. So begins this heartwarming story of Captain Talvis hunting for the son his late wife had given […]
Review: Done and Dared in Old France by Deborah Alcock
Little Gaspard, fleeing for his life in the dark forest, spied the light of a small cottage. The family, rougher people than he had ever met, needed a young boy to help smuggle salt and gave Gaspard two choices: die or become a smuggler. Although he learned their ways and met their friends, he never quite […]
Review: Leepike Ridge by N. D. Wilson
You’ll never guess the ending. You’ll never forget it either. While you read, you might be afraid and slightly nauseous like I was. Or maybe not. You would never give this book to your little ones, but for older ones it is just the thing: Leepike Ridge, by N.D. Wilson. Tom doesn’t like his mom’s […]