Fourteen-year-old Tish, living in Yonkers, New York, chronicles her family's problems and experiences during a seven month period in 1900

The Keeping Days

Teen & Young Adult

Johnston, Norma

Historical Fiction

Puffin

Fourteen-year-old Tish records the trials and tribulations of six months in her life between January and June in 1901. Sequel to "The Keeping Days."

Glory in the Flower (Keeping Days)

Literature & Fiction

Immigrating to nineteenth-century Boston from Germany, Lotta endures cruel disappointment in the face of hard times and a language barrier until she is taken under the wing of Louisa May Alcott, who introduces her to new dreams. Reprint.

Lotta's Progress (An Avon Camelot Book)

Children's Books

Biographies

Harpercollins

Their dream of a new life in a land of opportunity shattered by the cruel realities of immigrant life in 1848 Boston, the Muller family sinks ever deeper into despair and poverty, until twelve-year-old Lotta Muller meets members of the remarkable Alcott family.

Lotta's Progress

St. John, Nicole

Avon/Books

Roxana has know and loved Joss for as long as she can remember, ever since Joss came to Grey's Landing ten years earlier, in 1826, to be Roxana's nursery maid. Even before the deaths of her mother and brother in a tragic riverboat accident, Roxana had thought of Joss as family.
When her father, a prominent judge, is called to Washington, Roxana must stay behind with Joss and the other free blacks on the plantation to run things and, to her surprise, "light the lanterns"-to act as a stationmaster, if necessary, on the Underground Railway. But even more unsettling to Roxana is the thought that Papa will be traveling on the river.
After reports of brutal slave catchers in the area make it clear that Joss and her fiance must seek refuge farther north, it's up to Roxana to escort them, posing as an arrogant young slave owner. Her former teacher, Miss Hattie Beecher of Cincinnati, hates slavery, but will Roxana be able to overcome her crippling fear of the river long enough to get them to Miss Hattie? And will others on board the riverboat -- particularly the gracious young Southern gentleman who takes a fancy to Roxana -- see through her performance? Or is he, too, masquerading -- and more dangerous than he seems?
Norma Johnston transports readers to the banks and roiling waters of the Ohio River in the difficult days before slavery was abolished, in a gripping historical novel that is also a poignant coming-of-age story.

Over Jordan

Wychwood

Random House]

A fourteen-year-old New York girl keeps a journal of her experiences and adventures from January to June of 1901

Glory in the Flower

Ace Books

Fourteen-year-old Tish, living in Yonkers, New York, chronicles her family's problems and experiences during a seven month period in 1900

Tish wants to write well and she wants to be of help to her friends, but first she has to understand herself.

Mustard Seed of Magic

A shy young girl befriends a boy with a reputation as a troublemaker and convinces her family that there is more to him than appears on the surface.

Nice Girl Like You

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Books by Johnston, Norma

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The Keeping Days

Glory in the Flower (Keeping Days)

Lotta's Progress (An Avon Camelot Book)

Lotta's Progress

Over Jordan

Wychwood

Glory in the Flower

The Keeping Days

Mustard Seed of Magic

Nice Girl Like You