Books with author Joanna Higgins

A surprising friendship develops between Eugenie, an escapee from the French Revolution, and Hannah, a Quaker girl, when they unite in the cause against slavery in this adventuresome tale of true nobility set amidst the rugged, eighteenth-century, Pennsylvania wilderness.Fifteen-year-old Eugenie de La Roque and her family barely escape the French Revolution with their lives. Along with several other noble families, they sail to America, where French Azilium, as the area came to be known, is being carved out of the rugged wilderness of Pennsylvania. Hannah Kimbrell is a young Quaker who has been chosen to help prepare French Azilum for the arrival of the aristocrats. In this wild place away from home and the memories they hold dear, Eugenie and Hannah find more in common than they first realize. With much to learn from each other, the girls unite to help free several slaves from their tyrannical French owner, a dangerous scheme that requires personal sacrifice in exchange for the slaves' freedom.A story of friendship against all odds, Waiting for the Queen is a loving portrait of the values of a young America, and a reminder that true nobility is more than a royal title.

A surprising friendship develops between Eugenie, an escapee from the French Revolution, and Hannah, a Quaker girl, when they unite in the cause against slavery in this adventuresome tale of true nobility set amidst the rugged, eighteenth-century, Pennsylvania wilderness.Fifteen-year-old Eugenie de La Roque and her family barely escape the French Revolution with their lives. Along with several other noble families, they sail to America, where French Azilium, as the area came to be known, is being carved out of the rugged wilderness of Pennsylvania. Hannah Kimbrell is a young Quaker who has been chosen to help prepare French Azilum for the arrival of the aristocrats. In this wild place away from home and the memories they hold dear, Eugenie and Hannah find more in common than they first realize. With much to learn from each other, the girls unite to help free several slaves from their tyrannical French owner, a dangerous scheme that requires personal sacrifice in exchange for the slaves' freedom.A story of friendship against all odds, Waiting for the Queen is a loving portrait of the values of a young America, and a reminder that true nobility is more than a royal title.

A surprising friendship develops between two very different young women when they unite to free a family of slaves in this adventuresome tale of true nobility set amidst the rugged 18th-century Pennsylvania wilderness. Fifteen-year-old Eugenie and her family barely escape the brewing Revolution in France with their lives. Along with several other noble families, they sail to America, where French Azilum is being carved out of the wilderness of Pennsylvania. Hannah Kimbrell is a young Quaker who has been chosen to help prepare Azilum for the aristocrats. In this wild place away from home, Eugenie and Hannah, at first enemies, find they have more in common than they first realized. With much to learn from each other, the girls unite to free several slaves from their tyrannical French owner, a dangerous scheme that requires personal sacrifice in exchange for the slaves' freedom.

*Finalist Readers' Favorite Book Awards 2015 in Realistic Fiction *Winner of Honorable Mention Medal in the Global Ebook Awards 2014 in Popular Literature Fiction *Short-listed finalist in the Writers' Village International Novel Award 2014 open genre *Top 5 finalist in Chatelaine Awards 2014 *Top 5 finalist in the Danté Rossetti Awards for Young Adult Novels 2014 *Semi-finalist in the Kindle Best Indie Book Awards 2014 in YA.When you don't have a close parental bond, what fills the empty void? How do you get your parents' attention when you weren't the child they wanted? Steal cheap undies from Walmart? Get arrested? Well it seemed like a good idea at the time.The crotchety old judge who is supposed to impose a fine takes one look at Lily's private school uniform, dyed black hair and Goth-style makeup, and allocates her 50 hours community service at a retirement home. He thinks she will learn something. She disagrees.When you can't relate to people your own age, how do you relate to old people? On her first visit to Sorrento Retirement Facility, Lily meets Alice, an elderly woman with an acerbic tongue who wants to escape, and her daughter Karen for whom she feels an instant warmth. She also meets the head nurse who takes an immediate dislike to her. An instantaneous decision to steal cheap knickers set Lily on a new path. But it is not smooth. There are people on it who will attempt to block her way. Abandonment, loss, hope, strength, love, humor, romance. This story has it all.Read the Amazon sample to decide if you want to know Lily's story.

Born without sight, Victoria is on her way across to a distant colony to receive new eyes. Forced to take a pit stop on an unnamed planet Victoria and her fellow crew are at the mercy of an unrelentingly powerful force. As the terrified Victoria hears each crew member disappear into the darkness until she is left alone on a strange world...a world hell bent on taking the one thing she needs.