Children of the Fire by Harriette Gillem Robinet

They must keep their master from robbing a stagecoach and make sure the Pony Express takes Abraham Lincoln’s election news to keep California in the Union. Her most recent, TWELVE TRAVELERS, TWENTY HORSES, is an action-packed favourite of chilren everywhere, telling the story of Jacob 13, Chloe 13, and Solomon, 9, who travel West with other slaves and a foolish young master who calls himself Honorable Mister Higginboom. Four of her books books were named Notable Books in social studies CHILDREN OF THE FIRE won the 1991 Award from Friends of American Writers WASHINGTON CITY IS BURNING won the 1997 Carl Sandburg Award THE TWINS THE PIRATES AND THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS won the Midland Authors Award in 1998 FORTY ACRES AND MAYBE A MULE won the 1999 Scott O’Dell Award for historical fiction for children WALKING TO THE BUS RIDER BLUES was nominated in 2001 for the Edgar Award by Mystery Writers of America and was a Jane Addams Award Honor book in 2001 a finalist for the 2003 William Allen White Award in Kansas a finalist for 2003-2004 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List and a finalist for the 2003 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award in Illinois. Harriette Gillem Robinet’s list of awesome achievements is LONG. She attended the College of New Rochelle in New York and received graduate degrees in microbiology from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and spent her childhood summers in Arlington, Virginia where her mother’s father had been a slave under General Robert E. Vanguard author Harriette Gillem Robinet was born in Washington D.C.

Children of the Fire by Harriette Gillem Robinet