New Releases by Pamela Smith Hill

Pamela Smith Hill delves into Laura Ingalls Wilder''s Little House novels, examining their texts, characters, settings, and themes to reveal how the books forever changed the literary landscape of children''s and young adult literature in ways that remain meaningful today.

"[E]xamines Wilder''s tumultuous, but ultimately successful, professional and personal relationship with her daughter-the hidden editor-Rose Wilder Lane.

A fantasy that includes mystery, myth, magic and the Holy Grail.After an archaeological dig at Glastonbury Tor in England uncovers the Holy Grail, Felicity and her mother, a professor of Arthurian literature, find that their destinies are linked across time with the Grail and the legendary King Arthur.

Where was life taking her? Fifteen-year-old Margaet Reeves O''Neill isn''t likely to forget the day the war came home to Springfield, Missouri. That was the day her father left to join the Confederacy, fighting for principles he no longer believed in, but for a state he loved. It was also the day she met Percival Wilder, a flirtatious Yankee officer who, instead of being her enemy, became an intimate friend. Now Federal troops have arrived in Springfield. Reeves watches neighbors turn against one another--some supporting Secessionists, others the Union--and she witnesses generosity and bravery side by side with greed and looting. The life she took for granted--her home, family, the very truths she''s always held dear--is changing before her eyes....

Ever since sixteen-year-old Tabitha Fortune was a child growing up in Rim, South Dakota, she''s heard stories about ghost horses-nightmare creatures whose giant bones haunt the sandstone cliffs near the Badlands. When paleontologist Dr. Phineas X. Parker announces plans to dig for these bones, Tabitha vows to join his crew. But this is 1899, and the world has different expectations for young women. Tabitha''s preacher father urges her to abandon her interest in science. "Pray for a godly husband", he lectures, "not a godless education." Even Dr. Parker discourages Tabitha, saying, "Vertebrate paleontology is no place for a lady." That leaves Tabitha with just one choice-and being a "lady" has nothing to do with it.