Books with author A. M. Hughes

As the Revolutionary War Heats up, a Boy's Hometown World Burns Down!1777 - Danbury on Fire! is an all-ages historical novel of the Revolution. From dinner party to disaster, the reader follows a boy through the days surrounding the British raid on a small-town Connecticut Patriot commissary. From dinner party to decapitation, Joe Hamilton rushes from one disaster to the next until he faces the flames - and freezes....Young Joe Hamilton's prominent family has split over the war: his Patriot grandfather has threatened Joe's pacifist father with jail for not enlisting. Now the redcoat invasion forces all the characters to abandon their beliefs and protect their families and friends from the consequences of their own acts. Snips from historical documents are seeded through the text to prove the truth of the fact-driven plot. From British generals to the put-upon Tory neighbor and his overworked daughter, here are real people doing exactly what they did in April of 1777. A bibliography is included, plus the characters' lives after the war. Whether you wonder about the lives of your ancestors or want to relive classics like Johnny Tremaine, this book surrounds fact with the caustic commentary of young Joe, who figures out fast that he'd better listen hard or someone might die.Click "Read Inside" - then click to buy ebook or paperback!

It looked like a paper cut, but sixteen-year-old Dylan Lord is discovering just how painful lies can be. Every lie she tells or hears causes physical pain. It isn't coincidence this started with Jack. He’s there to teach her to be a “Fide”; to feel and heal lies. She wants to believe nothing is happening. A letter opener sliced her hand, not her mother’s “I love you.” The cuts opening on her arms as she walks through her high school were already there, but it’s not working. Every wound she suffers Jack does too. When a lie rips open across Dylan’s stomach, she must admit she isn't fine. She never asked for this. She doesn't want to be a walking lie detector, but not all lies can be covered with Band-Aids. The lies she hasn't fixed are spreading across her body, and she isn't the only one suffering. Jack is growing weaker. She has to hear the truth to heal. If she doesn't hear the truth soon, someone is going to die.

It looked like a paper cut, but sixteen-year-old Dylan Lord is discovering just how painful lies can be. Every lie she tells or hears causes physical pain. It isn't coincidence this started with Jack. He’s there to teach her to be a “Fide”; to feel and heal lies. She wants to believe nothing is happening. A letter opener sliced her hand, not her mother’s “I love you.” The cuts opening on her arms as she walks through her high school were already there, but it’s not working. Every wound she suffers Jack does too. When a lie rips open across Dylan’s stomach, she must admit she isn't fine. She never asked for this. She doesn't want to be a walking lie detector, but not all lies can be covered with Band-Aids. The lies she hasn't fixed are spreading across her body, and she isn't the only one suffering. Jack is growing weaker. She has to hear the truth to heal. If she doesn't hear the truth soon, someone is going to die.

As the Revolutionary War Heats up, a Boy's Hometown World Burns Down!1777 - Danbury on Fire! is an all-ages historical novel of the Revolution. From dinner party to disaster, the reader follows a boy through the days surrounding the British raid on a small-town Connecticut Patriot commissary. From dinner party to decapitation, Joe Hamilton rushes from one disaster to the next until he faces the flames - and freezes....Young Joe Hamilton's prominent family has split over the war: his Patriot grandfather has threatened Joe's pacifist father with jail for not enlisting. Now the redcoat invasion forces all the characters to abandon their beliefs and protect their families and friends from the consequences of their own acts.Snips from historical documents are seeded through the text to prove the truth of the fact-driven plot. From British generals to the put-upon Tory neighbor and his overworked daughter, here are real people doing exactly what they did in April of 1777. A bibliography is included, plus the characters' lives after the war.Whether you wonder about the lives of your ancestors or want to relive classics like Johnny Tremaine, this book surrounds fact with the caustic commentary of young Joe, who figures out fast that he'd better listen hard or someone might die.Click "Read Inside" - then click to buy ebook or paperback!

AS THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION HEATS UP, THE HAMILTON FAMILY MELTS DOWN!JOE HAMILTON, 13, JUST WANTS DECENT SHOES, BUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN HIS FATHER AND GRANDFATHER CALL EACH OTHER TRAITORS!The Hamilton family are Patriot to the bone, except for Joe's pacifist parents. Is this war right or wrong? Warned not to mix into rebel business, Joe dives headfirst into everyone's business, investigating a war that's barely started and way underfunded. Every Patriot failing revealed by Joe's hero, Lambert Lockwood, sounds like a horrible miscalculation. When Joe's adult cousin says he will hide if the British come, Joe has about had it! Both accident and planning slowly compel Joe to control his own life - and to do his best to manage everyone else's!Will it be the Liberty Boys' tar and feathers for Joe's father or the British hangman's noose for his Patriot grandfather?Famous figures abound in this four-day dash from disaster to disaster: Gen. William Tryon (star of TV's Outlander series) Enoch Crosby (star of James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy Gen. Benedict Arnold ('Nuf said!) This intricate braid of facts brings the reader closer to little-known aspects of the Revolutionary period Bounties paid (or not) to lure young boys into soldiery The artificer corp hidden in a valley near Danbury The Patriot Commissary's tempting stash of guns The smallpox threat terrorizing the population into inhuman deeds Oh, yes the redcoats are coming. They seem nice.Especially one. Maybe way too nice....When things get hot, Joe runs home ... the very last place he should be.If you liked Johnny Tremaine or My Brother Sam is Dead you'll love this book!Check out the inside flap to meet Joe Hamilton, a boy with some heavy family issues!

I have spent the majority of my career traveling. Pursuing a career I loved wasn't always easy because the trade-off was leaving Katie, my young daughter. I searched and searched for a book to read to Katie to let her know how much I loved her, even when I wasn't home. But it seems that book didn't exist so I decided to write one for all the parents and children in my same situation. Long Distance Goodnight Kisses shares the story of a working mom traveling across the country for a job she loves but struggling to let her young daughter know her first choice was being at home with her. This is a story of how long distance goodnight kisses helped bridge the gap that distance created. My hope is that other traveling parents can read this book to their children to let them know that no matter how far away they are, love is always present. By parents sharing their careers with their children, they are setting an example that their children are loved dearly and can be anything they want to be when they grow up. And from this book, I want kids to understand that they are not alone in getting long distance goodnight kisses.

This is a story, of one little boy’s generosity at Christmas time. It follows the child’s unselfish gift to Santa Claus all the way to the North Pole. It recounts Santa’s trials and tribulations with his special gift. Then it tells us all what made the gift so very special. It will surprise and delight when we learn how this gift of love and kindness ultimately saves Christmas.