Ann Turner

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1980
  • Latest Book:
    August 2022
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Dear America

The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl, 1864 (Sep-1999)
Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson, Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, 1774 (Mar-2003)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • A Hunter Comes Home

    Returning to his tiny Eskimo village after a dismal year away at school, fifteen-year-old Jonas plans to fulfill his dream of becoming a hunter by observing the old ways of Owl Man, his proud grandfather...

  • Time of the Bison

    The lives of primitive cave dwellers, an unlikely subject for children's fiction, emerge in this short novel about a boy with an artistic, mystical gift. Scar Boy longs for a special talent, and thus a name, that will bring him distinction. (His fath...

  • Dakota Dugout

    Tell you about the prairie years? I'll tell you, child, how it was. And through a combination of spare, poetic text and expansive illustrations, readers can learn of life on the prairie as the settlers knew it -- seen through the eyes of a woman who ...

  • Grasshopper Summer

    In 1874, eleven-year-old Sam White and his family are moving from Kentucky to the Dakota Territory. These hardy pioneers know it will be hard work, but they don't expect the devastating plague that comes like an unstoppable force to sweep away all th...

  • Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies

    A little boy living in a distant country is lonely. He needs a bed of his own, a room of his own, a house of his own -- and most of all, a momma and poppa of his own. But he must travel far to get them. He must fly for a day and a night through bl...

  • Rosemary's Witch

    After moving into an old house in a small New England town, 9-year-old Rosemary discovers that the nearby woods conceal a 150-year-old witch, who once lived in the house and is using her magic to take it back....

  • Apple Valley Year

  • Christmas House

  • Dust for Dinner

    I Can Read: Level 3

    Jake and Maggy lived on a farm where they loved to sing and dance to the music from Mama's radio. Then terrible dust storms came and ruined the land. The family had no choice but to auction off the farm and make the long, hard journey west to Cali...



  • Finding Walter

    A family of dolls languishes in the dusty dollhouse up in the attic for years until two little girls, nieces of the original owner, clean the dolls up and play with them. Just as the dolls begin to enjoy their new “life” in a universe parallel to...

  • Katie's Trunk

    Based on a true incident that happened to one of the author’s ancestors, Katie’s Trunk gives an unusual and arresting glimpse of the beginnings of the American Revolution. Katie could feel it in the air -- something was wrong. Neighbors didn’t ...

  • Angel Hide and Seek

  • Drummer Boy

    A thirteen-year old boy lies about his age to join the Union forces during America's bloodiest war. No matter what happens, a drummer boy in the Civil War must keep playing his drum to relay orders and rally spirits. He doesn't fight, but he sees it ...

  • Red Flower Goes West

  • The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl, 1864

    Dear America

    Mean Mouth shouts directions... There are so many men in blue! They make loud cries, their horses stamp, and all the time the Nakai is shouting directions to us...."Make a line, all together! You can bring your animals." Kaibah names him Mean M...

  • Abe Lincoln Remembers

    I told Mary that tonight is a time to be happy. As we wait to go see a play, I think again of that little house, the small window, the piece of sky with two birds and one squirrel. How much has come to pass since then.

    One evening in 1865 Pr...

  • Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson, Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, 1774

    Dear America

    At the brink of the American Revolution, Prudence Emerson finds her friends and neighbors turning against her and her family, who remain loyal to the British King.

    The drama of the American Revolution is brought to life through the eyes of a P...

  • When Mr. Jefferson Came to Philadelphia

    What did I know of freedom, of all the wild talk of independence that summer of 1776?

    Ned is just a boy helping his mother run their boardinghouse the summer that a tall, thin man named Mr. Jefferson comes to s...

  • Pumpkin Cat



  • Maia of Thebes

    Leap into the ancient world in renowned author Ann Turner's exciting addition to the Life and Times series. Maia's story is filled with action, adventure, and all the drama of life in ancient Egypt.

    The intrigue and mysticism of ancient Egypt ...

  • Lilac Sky Deirdre

    Lilac Sky is a children’s adventure book that takes three eight-year-old girls into a strange but friendly world. The children meet some odd fictional creatures who help the girls find a way back to their own world. Lilac Sky is a book of enchantme...

  • Hard Hit

    As she did in her groundbreaking memoir, Learning to Swim, Turner takes on a tough subject through luminous poetry. The result is a shattering and healing journey through one boy's loss of a parent.

    As the pitcher on his HS team, Mark lives an...

  • Sitting Bull Remembers

    In this dark room,in this place of fences, strange smells,and men with yellow eyeswhere finally I am caughtand cannot get free,I close my eyes and am home again. . . .

    Sitting Bull of the Hunkpapa band of the Sioux Nation w...

  • Father of Lies

    Truth or Lies? Lidda knew, with a clarity that was like a candle in a dark room, that all had changed; something was loosed in the village--Devil or not--and they would pay for it, every last man, woman, and child. Fourteen-year-old Lidda has a...

  • Sewing Quilts

    Set against a cozy background of a warm fire and supper simmering on the stove, this simple story is full of the comfort and joy of quilting -- and the fears of growing up on the frontier. Lyrical verse is perfectly matched with radiant pastel art th...

  • Heartsease

    An ordinary woman’s struggle to cope in extraordinary places, surrounded by power, greed, danger and lust... At only 16, Mary Hawke is married to the handsome Henry Crawford and goes to live with him in his Essex home. But her husband is a viciou...

  • My Name Is Truth

    Here is the remarkable true story of how former slave Isabella Baumfree transformed herself into the preacher and orator Sojourner Truth, as told by acclaimed author Ann Turner and award-winning illustrator James Ransome. An iconic figure of the abol...

  • A Sister's Crusade

    A Sister's Crusade is a story of a wronged heroine set towards the end of the 12th century. Aubrette, raised at Romhill as a companion to the local lord's only daughter Rowena, discovers that she is actually Rowena's half-sister. This revelation come...

  • Out of the Ice

    'A cinematic page-turner' Weekend Australian By the bestselling author of The Lost Swimmer, a tense, eerie thriller set in the icy reaches of Antarctica When environmental scientist Laura Alvarado is sent to a remote Antarctic island to report on an ...



  • The Lost Swimmer

    Rebecca Wilding, an archaeology professor, traces the past for a living. But suddenly, truth and certainty are turning against her. Rebecca is accused of serious fraud, and worse, she suspects - she knows - that her husband, Stephen, is having an aff...

  • The Last Daughter

  • Unexpected Journey Lee

    Elrica Jane Davis is embarking on a daunting solitary journey from Caddo Gap through the mountains that make up the wilderness that is western Arkansas in 1858. This will be a dangerous trip for a young woman with just her dog and mule for protection...

  • Mollie's Journey Lee

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    All Mollie McGuire has ever wanted is to have a home and family of her own to love and care for. After a serious accident, her father is not able to provide for his family so Mollie starts out from Memphis across the Arkansas wilderness to join some ...

  • A Moon for Seasons

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ann Turner has published 34 books.

Ann Turner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Unexpected Journey Lee, was published in August 2022.

The first book by Ann Turner, A Hunter Comes Home, was published in May 1980.

No. Ann Turner does not write books in series.
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