Patricia Beatty, Author HarperTrophy $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-11497-8
Following their father's death, Lupita and her brother must leave their Mexican fishing village for the U.S. to earn income for the family. Ages 12-up. (May)
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Patricia Beatty, Author HarperCollins $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-688-11028-4
Beatty's posthumous Civil War novel will be welcomed by readers of her earlier works, such as Charley Skedaddle and Jayhawker . Truth Hopkins, a Quaker, is sent to North Carolina relatives on the eve of the Civil War; her mother is dead and her...
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Patricia Beatty, Author William Morrow & Company $16 (186p) ISBN 978-0-688-06687-1
Fighting is important to Charley Quinn, 12, a street-tough New York Bowery Boy who runs away from his Irish-Catholic home to join the Union forces in Virginia. But war proves much more horrible than he'd thoughtso terrible, in fact, that he deserts,
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Patricia Beatty, Author William Morrow & Company $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-05923-1
Well regarded for her lively stories about the American West, Beatty has written another rouser, this time set in turn-of-the-century Texas. Its heroine, Bethany Brant, is a preacher's daughter, hard-pressed to be good, especially when her mother...
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Patricia Beatty, Author Morrow Junior Books $16 (214p) ISBN 978-0-688-09850-6
Not just another historical fiction about the Civil War, the late Beatty's ( Charley Skedaddle ; Be Ever Hopeful ; Hannalee ) novel follows the adventures of Lije (for Elijah) Tulley. He's a jayhawker--an abolitionist raider--from Kansas caught up...
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Patricia Beatty, Author, Daniel Mark Duffy, Illustrator HarperCollins $5.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-688-10077-3
Captured by the Comanches while his father is off fighting the Civil War, 13-year-old Lewallen Collier plots to escape and rescue his little sister. Ages 10-up. (Oct.)
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