New Releases by Patricia Beatty

After the casual adoption practices in 19th-century Texas result in three unsuccessful placements for a 13-year-old girl, she is finally forced to face the placement she has tried so hard to avoid.

The Staffordshire terrier 13-year-old Cissie raises from an orphaned pup is stolen by her uncle and entered in illegal dogfights.

A 13-year-old living in a turn-of-the-century California mining town determines to marry off her adoptive brothers and discover the identity of her real parents.

In an attempt to change the family''s failing fortune, Lucinda''s aunt goes into the business of producing a patent medicine.

Two youngsters meet their Uncle Rudd who tells them tall tales about his life with the cowboys, Indians, and Confederates.

A thirteen-year-old Mormon boy from California makes his way east, searching for his horse which was stolen for use by the Confederates in the Civil War.

The women of a Montana mining town disrupt life when they try to raise money for a new school.

While stranded in the Arizona territory in the 1880''s a thirteen-year-old girl finds herself the owner of a traveling hotel.

Living in the South Carolina hills in 1780, a young Scottish boy, whose own family is divided between Loyalist and rebel, must decide for himself which side he will follow.

Living in the South Carolina hills in 1780, a young Scottish boy, whose own family is divided between Loyalist and rebel, must decide for himself which side he will follow.

Recounts the experiences of an Irish setter as he passes from owner to owner on the campus of a California university.

In 1881 a tomboy, her younger brother, and her pet longhorn accompany a fifteen-year-old boy searching for his father through Texas and the New Mexico and Arizona territories.

A young girl disguises herself as a boy to play feminine roles in the theater of Shakespearean England.

In the 1840''s in California a young Comanche refuses to accept the ways of his Mexican captors but wins their acceptance and admiration when he helps to cast the church bell and uses it to warn the villagers of approaching danger.

When a new girl arrives at Fort Yuma, Arizona, in 1881, thirteen-year-old Dorcas finds herself involved in the escape of an outlaw from the prison across the river.

In 1879 a thirteen-year-old boy, his friend, and his dog journey four hundred miles across Texas to bring back the body of an older brother for burial in the family graveyard.

Fourteen-year-old Christopher witnesses the beheading of Charles the First and flees to Ireland where he becomes involved in the events that lead to the Roundhead Massacre of the Irish and their Cavalier defenders at Drogheda.

Thirteen-year-old Louisa recounts how the visit of her suffragette aunt changed the lives of her family and the whole town.

Resentful at being sent to California with his sister to avoid the dangers of the Civil War in Delaware, thirteen-year-old Will is soon entangled with Rebel plotters and Union spies in San Francisco.

During the English Civil War, Prince Rupert led the King''s cavalry, accompanied by his great white poodle, known to the Roundheads as the witch dog and Rupert''s luck.

Appalled by conditions in the uncivilized nineteenth-century silvermining town to which her husband has brought his family, Mrs. Perkins sends him to live in the town''s bachelor quarters, until, a year later, their daughter''s determination to go to high school makes reconciliation possible.

Three motherless children who decide to find a new wife for their father, a banker in the boomtown mining center of Idaho, select a promising candidate whose son is an outlaw.

Amelia and her family move from England to a southern California orange grove in the 1880''s. Grades 5-7.

Jesse, a mute, homeless, young shepherd of the Holy Land, joins a traveling circus where he is placed in charge of a performing donkey, Belshazzar. During their travels the donkey is sold, and the story tells of how they come together again in Bethlehem during the first Christmas, when the donkey played an important role in the life of the Holy Family.