Patricia Willis

• Apr-1991
• / General Fiction
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Thirteen-year-old Henry, hired by the strangely unfriendly Miss Morrison to be summer help on her farm in 1943 while most of the men in the area are overseas in the war, discovers that her gruff hardness conceals hurt over a secret in her past....

• Apr-1995
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In 1946, a year after Mandy's father died in World War II, Mandy, her mother, and her younger brother Ira move in with stern Aunt Bess on her northern Ohio sheep farm. Desperate to hold on to the memory of her father, Mandy dreams of returning to the...

• Apr-1999
• / General Fiction
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Traveling down the Ohio River in 1793, Amos, Clara, and Jonathan are separated from their father during a brutal Indian attack. The three children are swept down the river, and must make their way back through the wilderness in the direction of the M...

• Apr-2000
• / General Fiction
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After a family disagreement, Ross Cooper leaves home with only a knapsack and the clothes on his back. He hopes to find work, but job prospects in the 1930s are dim, especially for someone as young and inexperienced as Ross. His troubles worsen after...