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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1985
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • A summer of drought and epidemic illness in 1847 forces Mina, Papa, and his new wife, Lisette, to move on from Fredericksburg, Texas, to a larger land grant deep in Comanche territory. This is the sequel to Janice Jordan Shefelman's "A Paradise Calle...



  • Searching for a better life, Mina, Papa, and Mama left their German fatherland aboard the brig Margaretha ,bound for Texas. They had been told it was the paradise of North America, but when Mina steps onto the desolate beach at Indian Point on a c...





  • When Mina learns that Amaya, her Lipan Apache friend, has been kidnapped by a band of marauding Comanches, she disguises herself as a boy and follows the Texas Rangers to search for Amaya. Sequel to "A Paradise Called Texas." This is the third part o...





  • Illus. in full color. When Young Wolf is finally old enough to have his own horse, he chooses a mare, which is unheard of among Comanche warriors. But boy and mare prove to be an exceptional team.  ...



  • Young Wolf's greatest wish is to join his tribe in pursuing buffalo, but his father thinks he is too young.  However, Young Wolf prepares himself for the hunt--just in case his father changes his mind--in this moving story of courage and perseveran...



  • The action continues in the third book of the popular Young Wolf series! In this exciting tale of friendship and adventure, Young Wolf's beloved mare, Red Wind, is stolen by a magical wild stallion. Braving all sorts of danger, Young Wolf goes in sea...



  • It is the white man's year of 1840. Tsena, sixteen-year-old son of a Comanche peace chief, does not know that it is also the year the white man will change his life forever. Tsena's story is based on two historical encounters between the Comanches an...






  • Young Wolf wants to win the horse race at the tribal fair. So does Little Big Mouth. And that is how the trouble starts. Can Young Wolf's colt, Snow Wind, run as fast as his father, the legendary wild white stallion? Young Wolf thinks so. But Little ...



  • Dear Reader, I am afraid for us. So begins Sophie’s journal on Christmas Eve, 1861. An no wonder. She lives in Comfort, Texas, during the Civil War, and her father makes no secret of being a Unionist in a state that has left the Union. Terrible thi...



  • When Anna Maria's father, a famous violin maker, dies, she is sent to live in the Pieta, an orphanage in Venice. Though she misses her father, she knows he will always be with her, as long as she has the beautiful violin he crafted for her. Luckil...



  • Dear Reader, what is to become of us - of me, Sophie?Thus begins Sophie's second journal, written two years later. She is now fifteen years old, and the Civil War is three years old.Her first journal, Sophie's War, tells how she and her family live i...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Janice Shefelman has published 13 books.

Janice Shefelman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Village Without Men, was published in May 2023.

The first book by Janice Shefelman, Willow Creek Home, was published in January 1985.

No. Janice Shefelman does not write books in series.