Patricia Beatty

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1968
  • Latest Book:
    August 2018
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Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Me, California Perkins

    California Perkins, the twelve-year-old narrator of this rollicking tale, was named for the state she was born in. In fact, the Perkins family had lived in many states, for Mr. Perkins had an itchy foot. Still none of their experiences prepared them ...

  • Blue Stars Watching

  • The Sea Pair.

  • Hail Columbia

    Astoria, Oregon, in 1893, believed that women should be subdued and submissive. Understandably, therefore, the arrival of Columbia Baines proved upsetting. In a wonderful, fast-paced story, Louisa Baines, thirteen years old, tells what happened the y...

  • The Bad Bell of San Salvador

    In the 1840's in California a young Comanche refuses to accept the ways of his Mexican captors but wins their acceptance and admiration when he helps to cast the church bell and uses it to warn the villagers of approaching danger....

  • How Many Miles to Sundown

  • By Crumbs, It's Mine

  • Something to Shout About

  • Wait for Me, Watch for Me, Eula Bee

    With his father and brother serving in the Confederate Army and the rest of his family murdered in a Comanche raid of their west Texas farm, 13-year-old Lewallen seeks to free himself and his younger sister from their Indian captivity....



  • Lacy Makes a Match

  • Eight Mules from Monterey

    During the summer of 1916 thirteen-year-old Fayette and her brother accompany their widowed mother on a mule trip into the California mountains, where she is to establish library outposts in isolated communities...

  • Jonathan Down Under

  • Melinda Takes a Hand

    Thirteen-year old Melinda Carpenter was endowed with generous horse sense, so when her older sister Sarah Jane plans to travel from Chicago to San Francisco to marry her fiancé Edgar Everett Potter III, their aunt and uncle send Melinda along to rep...

  • The Coach That Never Came

    A stagecoach that vanished without a trace...$40,000 in stolen payroll money...a jewel-studded belt buckle -- they are all pieces of a 110-year-old mystery, that Paul Braun is determined to solve.

    While the thirteen year-old Easterner is vis...

  • Charley Skedaddle

    Charley Quinn never ran away from a fight in his life. After all, he's one of the Bowery Boys, the toughest street gang in New York City. So after his older brother is killed at Gettysburg, Charley vows revenge and enlists with the Union Army as a dr...

  • Sarah and Me and the Lady from the Sea

    Marcella Abbott can't believe it. Her family is giving up their house in Portland, Oregon, and their comfortable life in the city to live year-round on Washington State's Olympic peninsula when her father's business is ruined. Nahcotta's okay for ...

  • Eben Tyne, Powdermonkey

  • Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee

    In 1865 with the war recently over, fourteen-year-old Hannalee and her recently reunited family decide to start a new life in Atlanta where, because of the need to rebuild the devastated city, jobs are plentiful. Sequel to "Turn Homeward, Hannalee."...

  • Jayhawker

    In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansan farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy....



  • Who Comes with Cannons?

    When Truth Hopkins's father dies, she goes to live with her uncle and his family on their North Carolina farm. Like Truth, the Bardwells are Quakers. They oppose slavery but refuse to take up arms in the civil war that is now being wa...

  • Bonanza Girl

  • Nickle Plated Beauty

  • Nickel-Plated Beauty

  • O the Red Rose Tree

    A new edition of a popular classic recounts the charming 1893 adventures of the four thirteen-year-old girls from The Nickel-Plated Beauty as they try to help an old woman complete her dream quilt....

  • Turn Homeward, Hannalee

    During the closing days of the Civil War, plucky 12-year-old Hannalee Reed, sent north to work in a Yankee mill, struggles to return to the family she left behind in war-torn Georgia. "A fast-moving novel based upon an actual historical incident with...

  • Lupita Manana

    Crossing over the border is a dangerous business...

    ...But Lupita must cross from Mexico to America. After her father dies in a fishing boat accident in the seas near their small Mexican village, Lupita's family is left in pove...

  • Red Rock over the River.

    When a new girl arrives at Fort Yuma, Arizona, in 1881, thirteen-year-old Dorcas finds herself involved in the escape of an outlaw from the prison across the river.Dorcas Fox and her brother Charlie, 10, are with their father, Lieutenant Walter Fox, ...

  • A Long Way to Whiskey Creek.

    “This delightful tale of the Old West stars 13-year-old Parker Quiney, his companion Nate and Parker’s dog, J.E.B. Stuart. Boys and dog go on a journey to bring back the body of Parker’s brother from Whiskey Creek. On the way they have escapade...

Award-Winning Books by Patricia Beatty

Charley Skedaddle
1988 Scott O Dell Award for Historical Fiction -- Historical Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Patricia Beatty has published 28 books.

Patricia Beatty does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Long Way to Whiskey Creek., was published in August 2018.

The first book by Patricia Beatty, Me, California Perkins, was published in January 1968.

No. Patricia Beatty does not write books in series.
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