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A Samurai Never Fears Death

by Hoobler, Dorothy & Hoobler, Thomas

Returning home to investigate the possible connection of his family's tea shop with smugglers, Seikei, now a samurai in eighteenth-century Japan, becomes invol...

The Sword That Cut the Burning Grass

A Samurai Mystery

by Hoobler, Dorothy & Hoobler, Thomas

In his latest adventure in eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old samurai apprentice Seikei, with the help of a servant girl and an imperious old man, set...

In Darkness, Death

by Hoobler, Dorothy & Hoobler, Thomas

In eighteenth-century Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder of a samurai.

We Are Americans

Voices of the Immigrant Experience

by Hoobler, Dorothy & Hoobler, Thomas

A history of immigration to America, from speculation about the earliest immigrants to the present day.

The 1950s

Music

by Hoobler, Dorothy & Hoobler, Thomas

In the 1950s Matthew befriends a Negro boy who introduces him to the new music, and together they start a rock-and-roll band.

The Demon in the Teahouse

by Dorothy, & Hoobler, Thomas

In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson...

The 1940s

Secrets

by Hoobler, Dorothy & Hoobler, Thomas

In 1944 Gabriella, Esther, and other young people see the impact of World War II on their lives in the United States.

The 1920s

Luck

by Hoobler, Dorothy & Hoobler, Thomas

In 1927 the Dixons move from rural Georgia to Chicago, where African Americans have more opportunities, and there Lorraine meets a famous movie actress and her...

The Second Decade

Voyages

by Hoobler, Dorothy & Hoobler, Thomas

An Italian immigrant boy joins the large Aldrich family as they stage a women's suffrage play and receive messages on the wireless radio about the ocean voyage...

The First Decade

Curtain Going Up

by Hoobler, Dorothy & Hoobler, Thomas

In the early years of the twentieth century, Peggy and her cousins Harry and Jack experience the excitement of belonging to a family of famous actors as they p...