Books with author Laura Frances Kelley

The second installment of three in the Slave series by Laura Frances.After escaping execution, Hannah finds herself where she's always wanted to be...outside the valley of slaves. But the relief doesn't last, not when the rest of her people are still suffering. It's time to return. With the promise of help coming and the strength of new comrades, Hannah and Cash cross the mountains to rejoin the revolution. But winter has come, and the situation has only grown darker. The Outcasts are dying. The rebels are losing ground. With limited time, the rebel soldiers must hurry to try to convince more Watchers to renounce the Council's authority before the South arrives to take back their people.

Workers silently shuffle to their assigned posts. Outcasts watch from the alley walls. On every corner, a Watcher stands stone-faced, rifle in hand. Nineteen-year-old Hannah exists in a gray, smog-covered world of labor and fear, where sunlight and stars are stories whispered in secret. She survives on the memories left by her parents, reliving the moment they were dragged from their family unit and shot. Everything changes the night the valley erupts in explosions and gunfire. Edan, a young soldier in disguise, pulls Hannah from her unit and rushes her down to the streets. Surrounded by dozens of terrified slaves, she's told to run. Run as hard and as fast as you can and don't stop! Hannah's world turns upside down. Now the enemy fights for her freedom, and she must struggle to shake loose from fear-conditioning and to forgive men who inflicted terror on her people. For the sake of freedom, she has no choice.

BOOK THREE OF THE SLAVE SERIES Forces have assembled to destroy the slave system of the valley once and for all, but the Council will not go quietly. As plans are laid to cripple the enemy's pending assault, Titus Gray takes aim at his son, sowing distrust among the rebels. In this final installment of the Slave Series, Hannah works desperately to protect and inspire the Workers, even as the world they've grown up in erupts in flames.

The second installment of three in the Slave series by Laura Frances.After escaping execution, Hannah finds herself where she's always wanted to be...outside the valley of slaves. But the relief doesn't last, not when the rest of her people are still suffering. It's time to return. With the promise of help coming and the strength of new comrades, Hannah and Cash cross the mountains to rejoin the revolution. But winter has come, and the situation has only grown darker. The Outcasts are dying. The rebels are losing ground. With limited time, the rebel soldiers must hurry to try to convince more Watchers to renounce the Council's authority before the South arrives to take back their people.

A short story."Breathe, Hannah. In the nose. Out the mouth. Remember," Father said, "they need us."More than twenty years before Edan rushed Hannah into a revolution she wasn't ready for...Before the moon and stars and the Watcher...There was Jonathan, and there was Esma. This is their story. Tensions rise in the valley as new, unwarranted laws mean harsher punishments, and the Workers are left terrified and confused. Eighteen-year-olds Jonathan Bakker and Esma Salgado forge an unshakable friendship as the gray world they've grown up in crumbles around them. But even in the darkness of grief, hope flickers from the most unlikely places. And though the promise of freedom is now out of reach, the two must decide how they will live out their years in slavery: defeated...or with purpose.

There is no sun. There is no moon. There is only gray—the smog belched from coal-fueled factories. The Workers silently shuffle to their assigned posts. The Outcasts watch from the alley walls. On every corner, a Watcher stands stone-faced, a rifle in hand. This is the only life that exists. Beyond the mountains is a dream. But dreams are foolish in a place like this. Hannah has spent nineteen years dodging Watchers and doing as she is told.Do not look Watchers in the eye. Don't give them a reason to notice you.When she wakes to the valley exploding in revolution, Hannah is forced onto a dangerous path, where nothing is what she believed. Suddenly freedom is in her grasp, and the way there requires working with the men she once feared.

LIVING ADVENTURES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY Volume 1 - 1- PAUL REVERE – "The Midnight Ride for Freedom" The dramatized story of how Paul Revere’s historic ride sparked the American Revolution for freedom from King George of England. 2- VALLEY FORGE – "One Winter’s Day at Valley Forge" The dramatized story of how two shivering young soldiers kept America’s hopes alive during the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge. 3- MOLLY PITCHER – " The Lady with the Cannon" The dramatized story of how a teenage girl in pigtails, carrying only a pitcher, was the true winner in America’s vital victory in the Battle of Monmouth. 4- NATHAN HALE – "The Spy who Died a Hero" The dramatized story of how a young American officer sacrificed his life to safeguard George Washington’s fight for freedom.

LIVING ADVENTURES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY Volume 2 – 1- BETSY ROSS - "The Star-Spangled Lady" The dramatic story of how a young seamstress in Philadelphia created the first American Flag that united the thirteen colonies in their fight for freedom. 2- CRISPUS ATTUCKS - "The Martyr of the Boston Massacre" The inspirational story of how the son of a slave became the first man to die for freedom in the American Revolution, five years before the Revolution began. 3- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - "The Wise Man with Crazy Ideas The dramatized story of how one of the wisest men in American history dedicated his long life to wild and wonderful ideas that created a free America.

STORIES TO STIR THE IMAGINATION, Volume 3: 1- PANDORAS BOX ~ Long, long ago, there lived a girl named Pandora. One day a beautiful mysterious box was left in her cottage. She was warned not to open it, but she did anyway and all of a sudden a swarm of frightfully ugly creatures flew out in all directions, bringing with them, pain and suffering. Then at last, a bright glistening fairy flew out to bring new hope to the world. 2- THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE ~ A poor fisherman once caught a magic flounder who told him that he could bring anything the fisherman wanted. Instantly the fisherman wished for a cozy cottage to replace his tumbledown shack ... and the wish was granted. But his wife kept wishing for a mansion, then a palace. But when she wished to be God, the flounder was killed by a giant wave, which brought them back to the tumbledown shack. 3- THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF ~ A young shepherd wanted excitement, so he ran through his town shouting- A wolf is attacking my sheep. Instantly, people rushed out to capture the wolf, but there was no wolf. However, the next day when a wolf did attack his sheep, no one came to help. 4- THE NUTCRACKER AND THE MOUSE KING ~ The classic Christmas story of the fantastic dream of a little girl named Marie. In it she she saw an army of mice, led by the evil Mouse King, attack her precious Nutcracker, her favorite Christmas toy. Desperately, Marie took off her slipper and threw it at the Mouse King, which killed him on the spot. Instantly the Nutcracker stood up, but now he was a handsome prince who danced through night with Marie to beautiful music.

STORIES TO STIR THE IMAGINATION, VOLUME I - 1) THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES- The delightful story of how a little boy was the only one in a crowd of loyal followers who was honest enough to say that the emperor's magic new clothes were really "NO CLOTHES AT ALL!" 2) TOADS AND DIAMONDS - The profound story of two sisters. One sister, by helping a mysterious old lady at a fountain, was given the power to spout a diamond out her mouth. The other sister, who never helped anyone spout only a toad. 3) THE STORY OF WILLIAM TELL - A childhood favorite, of how a mighty bowman saved his country's freedom by splitting an apple perched upon of his brave son's head with his bow and arrow. 4) THE GOLDEN TOUCH - The dramatized story of how a greedy king loved gold so much that he wished everything he touched would turn into gold. When his wish was granted, he embraced his golden-haired daughter, and she became a gold statue.

LIVING ADVENTURES FROM THE BIBLE, Volume 2: 1- THE LOST SHEEP ~ As night closed in on the lonely shepherd, he could see that one of his flock was missing. It must be that frisky young lamb, he thought to himself. "I must go find him before the wolves get him." After hours of searching, he found his lamb trapped in a rocky valley, and brought him back to safety. 2- ESTHER, THE HEROIC QUEEN ~ The dramatic story of Esther, the young Jewish bride of the king of the ancient Persia, now called Iran. Esther had heard that the king’s wicked minister, Haman, was plotting to kill her people. She exposed Haman to the king, and Haman was hanged in the city square. 3- DANIEL IN THE LIONS’ DEN ~ When the heathen King Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem two thousand years ago, he took a religious young Jew named Daniel back to the city of Babylon. But when Daniel refused to worship the King’s golden idols, Daniel was thrown into a den of lions. His life was saved because of his undying faith in God. 4- THE FIERY FURNACE ~ King Nebuchadnezzar also brought three friends of Daniel back to Babylon. Their names were Shadrach, Mesach and Abendego. And like Daniel they refused to worship the king’s golden idols, and were thrown into a fiery furnace, where the flames didn’t touch them because of their steadfast faith in God.

LIVING ADVENTURES FROM THE BIBLE, Volume 3: 1- THE TALENTS ~ A rich man once gave three of his servants gold coins called talents, so they could go out and set up a business of their own. One servant bought a loom to make beautiful fabrics, and he did very well. The second servant bought a potter’s wheel to make beautiful pottery, and he too, did very well. But the third servant buried his talent in the earth and made nothing at all and thus, lost his servant’s job. 2- RUTH AND NAOMI ~ Israel once suffered a dreadful drought, which forced a mother named Naomi to move her family to the heathen country of Moab where there was plenty of water. There they met a wonderful woman named Ruth, who helped them to start a new life. Years later Naomi returned home to Israel, accompanied by Ruth, who now believed in the God of Israel. 3- JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS ~ Of his twelve sons, the mighty Jacob loved his eleventh, Joseph, most of all which made the ten other sons dislike, even hate, Joseph especially after Jacob had made a beautiful coat of many colors for Joseph. So the brothers secretly sold Joseph to merchants heading for Egypt. However, years later, Joseph saved his brothers from a devastating drought, where they founded the nation of Israel.