Most Popular Books by Patricia Beatty

Jesse, a mute, homeless, young shepherd of the Holy Land, joins a traveling circus where he is placed in charge of a performing donkey, Belshazzar. During their travels the donkey is sold, and the story tells of how they come together again in Bethlehem during the first Christmas, when the donkey played an important role in the life of the Holy Family.

A young girl disguises herself as a boy to play feminine roles in the theater of Shakespearean England.

Three motherless children who decide to find a new wife for their father, a banker in the boomtown mining center of Idaho, select a promising candidate whose son is an outlaw.

After the casual adoption practices in 19th-century Texas result in three unsuccessful placements for a 13-year-old girl, she is finally forced to face the placement she has tried so hard to avoid.

A Labrador dog, separated from his owners, is taken by Indians who want him to fight other dogs. When the dog refuses, he is adopted by a boy who loves him but trouble for both the dog and the boy ensue.

In an attempt to change the family''s failing fortune, Lucinda''s aunt goes into the business of producing a patent medicine.

To help her poverty-stricken family, thirteen-year-old Lupita enters California as an illegal alien and starts to work while constantly on the watch for "la migra."

Pepper Jane is a quite outspoken 3 1/2 year old. She is used to being the "only" child. And would just as soon keep it that way. Mom has a way of , hopefully, soothing the issue...at least temporarily.

In the village of Kenekomitt (now La Push), near the northwest corner of the Olympic Peninsula, Ku-de, a Quileute Indian boy, his friend Akil, his uncle Kayad, and the old canoe maker Haba, set out to build a canoe.