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Constance Lindsay Skinner
Despite a prolific output - poetry, plays, short stories, histories, reviews, adult and children's novels - and in contrast to her reputation in the United States, she has remained virtually unknown in the country of her birth.".
The White Leader
Adventure tale of frontier life in Tennessee pitting settlers against the Indians in almost daily battles as Spain and France conspired with the Indians to keep settlers from moving west past the Appalachian mountains.
If Wishes Were Hearses
George White, an inoffensive little chemist in East Anglia, finds himself the possessor of a somewhat unusual accomplishment - he only has to wish someone dead and his wish is granted. The first inkling of his abilities comes when Major James, a petty tyrant who made George the butt of his jokes, dies suddenly. Did he succumb to occult powers or had his own weak heart finally got to him? Although the police accept that the major's death has natural causes, several of the locals think otherwise, and attempt to solve the mystery to their own satisfaction.
Good-Morning, Rosamond!
"Good-Morning, Rosamond!"By Constance Lindsay Skinner, Thomas Fogarty (Illustrated by)
Teacher Diversity and Student Success
Teacher Diversity and Student Success makes a powerful case for diversifying the teaching force as an important policy lever for closing achievement gaps and moving schools closer to equity goals. Written by three leading scholars, the book provides nuanced solutions on how to diversify the teaching force, increase student exposures to same-race teachers, and improve teacher training for a culturally diverse student body. They argue that teacher diversity should be seen as one element of teacher quality, and policies focused on improving teacher quality should take race explicitly into consideration. The authors also address the historic and contemporary factors that have kept people of color out of teaching and highlight emerging research showing the significant, long-lasting impact of same-race teacher exposures, particularly for Black and Latino students. This timely book is a call to action for building teacher diversity to ensure student success.
The Ranch of the Golden Flowers
Kansas ingenuity and determination meets Spanish grace and benevolence in this story of Old California in the years just before the Gold Rush of 1849. The wagon which has carried sixteen-year-old Lank and his younger sister Tess across the plains, mountains and desert, through sickness, misery and near death, falls to pieces on the edge of La Hacienda de las Flores de Oro—The Ranch of Golden Flowers. Taken in by the generous de Soto family, and befriended by the Munita and her brother Ernesto, the recently orphaned young people desire to find a way to repay their kind hosts. Both captivated by the gracious culture of Spanish colonial life and alarmed by its open-handed and, to Lank and Tess, outright improvident ways, the two set to work with a will. How they succeed in helping to prepare the de Sotos for the great changes ahead is engagingly played out against the colorful background of Old Californian life at its height. This book was part of a series of books by Constance Lindsay Skinner depicting pioneer and wilderness life, of which Bethlehem Books’ Becky Landers, Frontier Warrior is also a part.
"Good-Morning, Rosamond!"
"Young Rosamond Mearely was the richest and fairest woman in Roseborough, and the widow of a gentleman whose name the hamlet and countryside mentioned still with the bated breath of pride. It was four years since Hibbert Mearely's departure. His faithful nurse was slowly preparing to follow him; she lay bedridden in Trenton Waters..." "Good-Morning, Rosamond!" is a romantic tale about a young widow's quest to find love again and the intricacies of settling on a suitable husband.
Pioneers of the Old Southwest
A fascinating chronicle of the pioneers of the Old Southwest, which is mainly the colonial settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee, and the Revolutionary War battles to keep the colonies in American hands. This narrative is founded largely on original sources-on the writings and journals of pioneers and contemporary observers, such as Doddridge and Adair, and on the public documents of the period as printed in the Colonial Records and in the American Archives.
