Showing results for "Angie" in Historical Fiction

When evil Baron Dennis visits Sedric's muddy peasant village to ask about everyone's feelings, Sedric is suspicious. And when a hairy giant troll called Vlad the Bad comes marauding through the village at night, Sedric knows there's something fishy going on. The grown-ups all want to flee straight away. But Sedric doesn't want to stay behind with smelly Uncle Bile, so he and his friends have to solve the mystery of the invasion of the hairy troll before it's too late!

In a southern Virginia coal-mining town in December 1942, Bone Phillips is learning to control her Gift: seeing the history of a significant object when she touches it. But one object is off limits: Uncle Ash's World War I dog tags, which hold memories of terror. When a body identified as Uncle Ash turns up inside the mines, Bone will need every ounce of courage she can summon to not only find her beloved uncle through the dog tags but prove that he isn't the thief the mine supervisor claims he is.

In a southern Virginia coal-mining town in October 1942, Bone Phillips is learning to control her Gift: Bone can see the history of a significant object when she touches it. When her best friend, Will Kincaid, asks Bone to "read" the history of his daddy's jelly jar—the jelly jar that was buried alongside his father during the mine cave-in that killed him—Bone is afraid. Even before Bone touches it, she can feel that the jar has its own strange power. With her mother dead, her father gone to war, and Aunt Mattie's assault looming over Bone, she can't bear the idea of losing Will too.