W. Rodman Philbrick

Twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has extraordinary adventures after running away from his evil uncle to rescue his brother, who has been sold into service in the Civil War.

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg

This is the harrowing story of the Donner Party, a doomed expedition traveling west in 1846 that ends in cannibalism.

The Donner Party Expedition

The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds

Lynn Harnett

Planning to spend the summer in an idyllic seaside vacation home, twelve-year-old Jason and his little sister, Sally, are terrorized by a series of ghostly occurrences that target children. Original.

The Haunting

When their baby-sitter becomes the latest victim of their haunted house on Cherry Street, Jason and Sally remember the fate of young Bobby, a former resident who suffered a fatal "accident," and fear that the house wants them as well. Original.

The Final Nightmare

After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future.

The Last Book in the Universe

Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.

W. Rodman Philbrick

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