Sisters In Time

For Girls Only
Barbour's Sisters in Time historical fiction series tells the engaging, intriguing stories of girls who experienced some of America's greatest historical events. Fictional teen and pre-teen girls are written into actual events showing today's readers what life was like in earlier times.

• Maggie's Dare

  by Norma Jean Lutz

  Slavery confuses Maggie Baldwin. It's 1744, and the tenderhearted twelve-year-old can't understand why her friend was given a young female slave as a...
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• Mandy The Outsider

  by Norma Jean Lutz

  Ten-year old Mandy McMichael doesn't fit in at her new school in Seattle. She's very smart, but the "in crowd" teases her so much she decides to play...
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• Maria Takes A Stand

  by Norma Jean Lutz

  1914 is a tough year for twelve-year-old Maria Schmidt. Ever since the Kaiser started a war in Europe, Maria's German-sounding surname has brought her...
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• Maureen The Detective

  by Veda Boyd Jones

  When her parents died, young Maureen O'Callaghan was sent from Ireland to the United States to begin a new life in the Stevenson family. At age eleven,...
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• Meg Follows A Dream

  by Norma Jean Lutz

  Slavery is a growing issue in the United States of the 1840s. . .but Meg Buehler can only think about drawing. This fictional twelve year old, an aspiring...
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• Nellie The Brave

  by Veda Boyd Jones

  In 1838, Nellie Starr, a young Cherokee girl, is caught in the political upheaval of America's westward expansion. Forced by U.S. soldiers to leave their...
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• Rachel And The Riot

  by Susan Martins Miller

  In Minneapolis in 1889, ten-year-old Rachel Borland finds her family torn apart by the new labor movement. Two of her uncles quarrel over the necessity...
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