Hester Burton
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Description
Mainly known as an English children's writer specializing in historical fiction, Hester Burton also wrote biographies. Born in Beccles, Suffolk, she was educated in Oxford and married an Oxford academic in 1937.
Books
Time of Trial
Young adult historical novel set in early 19th century England. A London bookseller publishes a radical pamphlet and finds himself in trouble both with the law and with the poor people he hoped to help.
Riders of the storm
The next chapter in the Stratification saga that “delivers all the right elements.”(Sci Fi Weekly) On the distant world of Cersi, Om'ray Aryl Sarc and her supporters have been exiled from the rest of their people. Finding refuge in the mountains, they work to rebuild the ruined village of Sona, even as they try to discover what happened to the original Sona Clan. But Sona has a history among all three of Cersi's races—a history that may soon threaten the future of Aryl's newly founded clan....
No beat of drum
Recounts the fortunes of two youths and a girl convicted of minor crimes by the nineteenth-century English courts and sent to the island penal colony of Tasmania.
The rebel
"Nate Walker has never shied away from the hard road. Even when it meant leaving behind his family's wealth ... and the fiance e who only wanted a rich man. Nothing was going to stop him from opening his own five-star restaurant. And he was on his way--until his car broke down on a dark road in the Adirondacks, leading him right to White Caps Inn ... and Frankie Moorehouse. Suddenly Nate has a job he doesn't really need--and an affair that has to end when summer does. Except Frankie has a way about her. She gets under his skin. She even makes him want to do what he never thought he could: stay forever."--Page 4 of cover.
The great gale
A young boy and girl help rescue their neighbors during a flood, and participate in rebuilding the village when the ordeal is over.
To Ravensrigg
A young English girl's quest for her real father's identity leads her to Liverpool and its slave trade.
The Henchmans at home
The adventures of three children growing up in a Victorian household in England.
Kate Rider
In 1646 a young English girl tries to cope with the many pressures, changes, and divided loyalties that the continuing Civil War imposes upon her family.
Kate Ryder
In 1646 a young English girl tries to cope with the many pressures, changes, and divided loyalties that the continuing Civil War imposes upon her family.
The flood at Reedsmere
A young boy and girl help rescue their neighbors during a flood, and participate in rebuilding the village when the ordeal is over.
In spite of all terror
In 1940 a fifteen-year-old orphan girl from the London slums is evacuated to the country to live with an aristocratic family.