Shelfari Book Activity

Tags: lee roddy

• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  An American Adventure: Book 1

  The Overland Escape

  by Lee Roddy

  Hildy Corrigan, almost a teenager, returns home to discover that her stepmother has abandoned her and taken her brother and four sisters. Fighting anger, resentment and self-blame, Hildy refuses to stay with her backwoods grandmother and runs away with her cousin Ruby in hopes of finding her family. Tracked by a crude mountain hunter hired to bring them back, Hildy despairs of ever fulfilling her promise to her... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  An American Adventure: Book 6

  Terror in the Sky

  by Lee Roddy

  Hildy Corrigan felt like the first day of school would never come! Ever since their family had arrived in California, her hopes and dreams were all focused on the Lone River Grammar School. If Hildy proves herself to be an excellent student, her goal of attending college to become a teacher and to someday get her "forever home" has a chance of becoming a reality. Being the oldest child of poor parents in the Great... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Shiloh's Choice: Giants on the Hill Trilogy (Giants on the Hill Series/Lee Roddy, Bk 3)

  by Lee Roddy

  Book three of the Giants on the Hill series finds Clay and Shiloh Patton the focus of sinister, high pressure tactics, pushing them to choose a side in America's erupting civil war—a gripping plot of history filtered through fast-paced fiction that will keep readers guessing to the thrilling conclusion.
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Cinnabar (Giants on the Hill, Bk 2)

  by Lee Roddy

  Shiloh Laird has one dream—to build the California stagecoach business her murdered husband started. But San Francisco in 1850 is a rough town, especially for a widow expecting her first child. In this dramatic second volume of the "Giants on the Hill" trilogy, Cinnabar is the story of love, revenge and the faith to overcome impossible obstacles.
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  An American Adventure: Book 4

  The Secret of the Howling Cave

  by Lee Roddy

  Hildy Corrigan had never seen the man before he bumped into her on the street. He turns out to be the suspect in a mysterious pawnshop theft. Why would he steal only one fancy gold watch? Is there a connection with the fact that it had been pawned just the day before? Why would he steal it in broad daylight? The evening of the same day, the Corrigan dwelling is burglarized. Considering how desperately... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Giants on the Hill

  by Lee Roddy

• The Flaming TrapLee Roddy

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  An American Adventure: Book 5

  The Flaming Trap

  by Lee Roddy

  It was dark before Hildy Corrigan left the mansion of Matthew Farnham, Lone River's cattleman-banker. His surprising offer to hire Hildy to care for his two small children on the streamline train from Sacramento to St. Louis occupied her mind until she realized she was being followed! Dangers Hildy thought they'd left in the past suddenly return. Suspicions finally prove true as her nemesis, Vester... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  An American Adventure: Book 3

  Danger on Thunder Mountain

  by Lee Roddy

  Hildy Corrigan and her cousin Ruby had hardly set foot in the Mother Lode community called Simple Justice when they ran straight into trouble. Coming on the scene of a sheepherder being tormented by local boys, Hildy instinctively comes to his aid. When Ruby takes on the ringleader, the boy's uncle intervenes and ends the fight. But why, when Ruby shows them the picture of her missing father, does this wealthy... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  An American Adventure: Book 8

  The Gold Train Bandits

  by Lee Roddy

  In 1934, during the midst of the Great Depression, millions of people were unemployed and homeless across the United States. During these hard times, it's no surprise that the country was overrun with dangerous bank robbers like John Dillinger. While the Depression had forced Hildy Corrigan's family to move to California in hopes of finding work and a home, she never imagined it would bring her face to face with a... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  An American Adventure: Book 9

  High Country Ambush

  by Lee Roddy

  Hildy Corrigan's world seems about to collapse around her when her unemployed father announces, just before Christmas, 1934, that the family must move away from their Lone River home. The desperate economic times of five straight years of the Great Depression have delivered another harsh blow. Having already moved from state to state, from cabin to tent to barn to tarpaper shack, this move means leaving Ruby and... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  An American Adventure: Book 2

  The Desperate Search

  by Lee Roddy

  Having found her family in Illinois and come to a new understanding with her stepmother, Hildy Corrigan travels with them to California only to discover some devastating news about her father's promised job. Hildy's hope of helping find a "forever home" for her brother and sisters is shattered as they join the thousands of migratory workers with no money and no available jobs. Sneered at and called "Okies," the... (more)