Books with author Phyllis Haislip

Are you amazed by technology and sometimes said that it is magic? Time travel has long been a fantasy, but perhaps it is only magic we have yet to master and understand.If you’ve ever been given something special to take care of and you dropped or lost it—like I have—you will sympathize with thirteen-year-old Jeff. He not only loses a powerful, high tech, prototype computer, the Magus, but also, it travels back in time to 1937. To his astonishment, Jeff begins to email across time with Claire, the girl who finds the Magus. He’s shocked to learn she’s seriously ill in a tuberculosis sanatorium and may die. In 1937 many young people died of tuberculosis.As their friendship develops, she reveals her family plans to return to the United States on the German zeppelin the Hindenburg. Jeff alerts Claire to the horrible fate of the zeppelin. Weak and constantly supervised, she must somehow escape from the sanatorium to warn her family. This brush with the past stuns Jeff. What would happen if the all-powerful Magus fell into the wrong hands and someone unscrupulous made use of its secret powers. Jeff must destroy the Magus, but how? I know you are thinking this is just another time travel story. It’s not. Everyone likes a good story and reading this book will open your mind to the possibilities of the powerful technologies you can now hold in your hand.Scroll up and download a copy to your favorite device before the price goes up yet again.

Twelve-year-old Cassie, a mixed-race child and a slave, is caught between the color lines in eighteenth-century Revolutionary War Virginia. She escapes slavery finding refuge with the British Army only to be cast out of Yorktown between the battle lines during the last great battle for American Independence. With her future in the balance, she must decide whether or not to reveal her true identity.

Twelve-year-old Lili has an unwanted gift, the power to heal. She doesn't understand her gift and it keeps getting her into trouble. Her father is missing and presumed dead at the Civil War Battle of the Wilderness in 1864. Lili's mother cannot support the family on the meager wages of a seamstress and entrusts Lili and her brother to a Philadelphia orphanage. After a daring escape, they follow their father's trail to Clara Barton's "flying hospital" on the battlefield at Petersburg, Virginia, and from there into the besieged city. In Petersburg, Lili must come to terms with her healing gift.