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We Are Mesquakie, We Are One
Hadley Irwin
Paperback (The Feminist Press at CUNY, Oct. 1, 1996)This powerful, fact-based story is seen through the eyes of Hidden Doe, a young Native American girl who grows to maturity during the 1840s, when the U.S. government forces her people to leave their homeland in Iowa and make the long and bitter journey to a Kansas reservation. As she comes of age during this painful time, Hidden Doe is counseled in the ways of her people by her courageous grandmother, and soon also grows to know a young man who will win her love.
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Jim-Dandy
Hadley Irwin
Hardcover (Margaret K. McElderry, May 1, 1994)Caleb's life with his harsh stepfather on a Kansas homestead just after the Civil War is painfully bleak, until the birth of Dandy, a young horse, but Caleb's relationship with his horse is threatened when economic hardship forces his stepfather to sell Dandy.
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The Lilith Summer
Hadley Irwin
Paperback (The Feminist Press at CUNY, Jan. 1, 1993)Wanting to earn a ten speed bicycle, twelve-year old Ellen reluctantly agrees to spend a summer as a companion to seventy-seven-year-old Lilith Adams. A powerful friendship grows between these two intriguing characters, and both gain a deeper understanding of old age, loneliness, insecurity, and death.
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Kim/Kimi
Hadley Irwin
Paperback (Puffin, Oct. 1, 1988)Despite a warm relationship with her mother, stepfather, and half brother, sixteen-year-old Kim feels the need to find answers about the Japanese American father she never knew.
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The Lilith summer
Hadley Irwin
Hardcover (Feminist Press, March 15, 1979)A 12-year-old girl relates her experiences during the summer she spends as a companion to a 77-year-old woman.
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We Are Mesquakie, We Are One
Hadley Irwin
Hardcover (The Feminist Press at CUNY, Nov. 1, 1980)A young Mesquakie Indian girl grows to adulthood at a time when her people are forced to move from their home in Iowa to a reservation in Kansas and encouraged to adopt the white culture.
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Sarah With an H
Hadley Irwin
Hardcover (Margaret K. McElderry, Oct. 1, 1996)Sarah and her family, the first Jewish people to move into a small town in Iowa, are received warmly at first, but things take a turn for the worst as Sarah finds herself a victim of her classmate's jealousy and the community's prejudices.
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The Original Freddie Ackerman
Hadley Irwin
Hardcover (Margaret K. McElderry, Oct. 31, 1992)After refusing to spend the summer with his father, stepmother, and their mixed-up family, Freddie, a lonely twelve year old, is sent to stay with two eccentric great-aunts on a Maine island, where he soon finds himself embroiled in a challenging mystery.
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So Long at the Fair
Hadley Irwin
Hardcover (Margaret K. McElderry, Nov. 30, 1988)The summer fairgrounds provide a temporary refuge for eighteen-year-old Joel as he struggles to deal with his memories of Ashley, the friend he loved and expected to have as a part of his life always.
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I Be Somebody
Hadley Irwin
Mass Market Paperback (Berkley, Feb. 2, 1988)None
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The Original Freddie Ackerman
Hadley Irwin
Mass Market Paperback (Simon Pulse, June 1, 1996)Twelve-year-old Trevor Frederick Ackerman refuses to spend another summer with his extended family of divorced parents, step-parents, and step-brothers and step-sisters, so he is sent up to Maine to stay with two eccentric great aunts and there gets involved with some interesting people and an unexpected mystery.After refusing to spend the summer with his father, stepmother, and their mixed-up family, Freddie, a lonely twelve-year-old, is sent to stay with two eccentric great aunts on a Maine island, where he soon finds himself embroiled in a challenging mystery
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