Sandra Dallas
2) True sisters
3) Tallgrass
During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes turn on the newcomers. Rennie has just turned thirteen and until this time, life has pretty much been predictable and fair. But the winds of change are coming, and with them, a shift in her perspective and a discovery of secrets that can destroy even the most sacred
...10) Whiter than snow
11) New mercies
12) The Chili Queen
13) Alice's tulips
Winner! Western Writers of America 2020 Spur Award - Best Western Juvenile Fiction Category.
Tied for 1st Place! 2020 Women Writing the West Willa Award
2021-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Master List.
In 1933, what's left of the Turner family—twelve-year-old Hallie and her two brothers—finds itself driving the back roads of rural America. The children have been swept up into
..."The narration by Carly Robins is exceptional." - The Reading Frenzy on Little Souls
Sandra Dallas's Little Souls is a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets set in Denver mid America's last deadly flu pandemic.
Colorado, 1918. World War I is raging overseas, but it's the home front battling for survival. With the Spanish Flu rampant, Denver's schools are converted into hospitals, churches
17) Fallen women
19) Hardscrabble
2020-2021 South Carolina Book Awards
2019 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Juvenile Book Winner
2019 Spur Award - Western Writer's of America Finalist
In 1910, after losing their farm in Iowa, the Martin family moves to Mingo, Colorado, to start anew. The US government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders. All they have to do is live on the land for five years and farm it.
...20) Tenmile
Life in 1880 Tenmile, Colorado, isn't easy.
But it's all that 12-year-old Sissy Carlson knows. She's lived here her whole life, watching her father, the local doctor, tend to the town's citizens. And while the mountain setting is gorgeous, Tenmile is a rough gold mining town. It often feels like there's just a thin line between life and death. Mining is a hard job; men are hurt or even killed. Sissy sees the same thin line
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