Books published by publisher Lee Roddy

In the first five books in the Between Two Flags series, readers followed three remarkable young people fighting to achieve their individual goals. Each has dealt with his own hopes and ambitions in the midst of danger and turmoil in the American Civil War. Now in book #6: NAT falsely charged with stealing from his master desperately seeks to flee to freedom on the Underground Railroad. First he must escape hounds pursuing him through a swamp where other fugitives have vanished forever.GIDEON excited to work for the Richmond newspaper is given a dangerous assignment which could land him in trouble with the Confederate authorities but he chooses the risk to fulfill his writing dreams.EMILY'S frustrating relationship with William, her slave-holding cousin, reaches a climax when he forces her to leave Briarstone with no money and nowhere to go. She's frantic to obtain another pass to allow her to reach Illinois in time for Christmas.

EMILY, a Northerner who hates slavery, is stranded at Briarstone Plantation in Virginia. She longs to cross Civil War battlefields to her home in Illinois. But when friend Gideon tells her that they are all in extreme danger from a planned slave uprising, Emily joins them in a desperate effort to prevent tragedy..GIDEON, a Southern teenager, overhears plans for a slave uprising threatening the lives of his own family, plus friends Emily and Nat. Gideon enlists their aid in a desperate effort to discover who's behind the uprising so it can be stopped before the plotters strike. NAT, a teenage slave at Briarstone Plantation, plans to run away when he learns that a white slave speculator has come to sell him into the Deep South. Then Nat discovers that friends, Emily and Gideon, are in dire jeopardy from a slave uprising. Will Nat run away or stay and risk his life to help his friends?

NAT TRAVIS a teenage fugitive slave, races the clock in two highly risky ventures: One, to help his mother and sister escape to freedom. Second, to rescue his younger brother who is chained to a slave coffle to be sold in the Deep South.GIDEON TUGWELL a poor white southern farm boy hides Emily's friend, an injured fugitive Yankee on his farm. Barley Cobb, a slave catcher alerts civilian "guerilla" police hoping to charge Gideon with treason.EMILY LODGE a Northern teenager delays using her time sensitive pass back to the North to help the injured Union trooper secretly recovering at the Tugwell farm. Will her pass expire before she can use it?

Lance, a half-grown German shepherd pup, is dumped into a hostile mountain wilderness to survive as best he can. The abandoned dog begins a desperate quest to return to a motherless boy who loved him. Lance had last seen the boy ride his bicycle off to school one spring morning, but he never returned. To the grieving father, the dog is a painful reminder that his son and Lance had been inseparable. The father doesn't want the dog around, so deserts him in California's primitive back country.Lance's devotion to the boy drives him to try returning home in spite of sore feet, intense hunger, wild animals, and many other dangers common to a wilderness environment. A life and death struggle with a huge black bear provides the dramatic climax where Lance fights for the one item that gives him the hope that can end his lonely journey.