Kristiana Gregory Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of Legend of Jimmy Spoon Books
The Legend of Jimmy Spoon | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jimmy Spoon and the Pony Express | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Hope's Revolutionary War Diary Books
Five Smooth Stones | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My America | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
When Freedom Comes | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Prairie River Books
A Journey of Faith | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Grateful Harvest | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Winter Tidings | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hope Springs Eternal | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Cabin Creek Mysteries Books
The Secret of Robber's Cave | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Clue at the Bottom of the Lake | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Legend of Skull Cliff | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haunting of Hillside School | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Blizzard on Blue Mountain | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret of the Junkyard Shadow | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Phantom of Hidden Horse Ranch | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Case of the Spying Drone | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Danger on Lost Island | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shadow at Shark Cove | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Dear America Books
When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Winter Of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary Of Abigail Jane Stewart | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Picture Of Freedom | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stationery Pack | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic 1912 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Railroad Race | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Heart is on the Ground | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York 1938 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Valley of the Moon: The Diary of María Rosalía de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta Valley, California, 1846, | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana 1932 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska 1881 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C. 1917 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan, The Perkins School for the Blind, 1932 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All the Stars in the Sky | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory 1849 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl, New York Colony 1763 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Like the Willow Tree | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cannons at Dawn | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Standing in the Light | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Down the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871: The Diary of Pringle Rose | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Growing Up with Aloha | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Jenny of the Tetons | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Earthquake at Dawn | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stowaway | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Across The Wide And Lonesome Prairie | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Orphan Runaways | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Railroad Race | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seeds of Hope | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bronte's Book Club | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Darlin' Clementine | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cleopatra | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stalked | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of The Royal Diaries Books
Mary, Queen of Scots | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isabel: Jewel of Castilla | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Red Bird of the South | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sŏndŏk: Princess of the Moon and Stars | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eleanor, Crown Jewel of Aquitaine | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kaiulani | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jahanara, Princess Of Princesses | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Elisabeth: The Princess Bride | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kristina: The Girl King | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady of Palenque: Flower of Bacal | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anacaona: Golden Flower | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Catherine, The Great Journey | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kristiana Gregory is a children’s and historical fiction author best known for her “Cabin Creek Mysteries” and contributions to the “Dear America” series. Gregory was brought up two blocks from the beach in Manhattan, California, and as a child spent a lot of time making up stories. She has asserted that the stories she would tell her younger sister and brother would leave them wide-eyed and this encouraged her to aspire to a writing career. At only eleven years, she got her first rejection letter for a poem she penned in a math class. As a fourth-grader, she got her first job in the school cafeteria washing trays and dishes. Over the years, she held a number of odd jobs that include reporter, telephone operator, camp counselor, lifeguard, columnist and book reviewer for the LA Times, before she finally achieved her dream of becoming an author. It was while she was working at the LA Times that she met the two most important mentors in her career in Charlie Ferrell and Art Seidenbaum. Her debut novel was “Jenny of the Tetons” that she first published in 1989. Kristiana has asserted that writing children’s fiction has been a dream come true. Since she also writes about history, she gets to blend facts with storytelling and get the opportunity to make happy endings even if things do not always end that well in history. She has been married for more than 30 years and currently lives in Boise Idaho with her husband, two grown sons and their golden retrievers.
While she currently writes historical fiction, she stumbled into it unlike most of her contemporaries that assert that they have always loved the genre. It all came about when she was working as a newspaper reporter for the “Telegram-Tribune.” Gregory always loved digging for all facts in a story and San Luis her editor once yelled across the room that she should just write fiction since her leads were too flowery. Even as a reporter, she could make the details of a boring council meeting fun and given that she loved history, it was inevitable that she would get into historical fiction. In her research for her novels, she has been to all manner of places including Morristown for her “Dear America” novel set in the Revolutionary War, and France for “Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine.” Kristiana has also been to Idaho, California, Colorado, Kansas, and Utah for her research. She also cites the influence of Theodore Taylor, Charles Dickens, Ingalls Wilder, and Mark Twain who write novels that drew from history. As an adult, she has more eclectic tastes and reads and draws from anything including news articles, biographies “National Geographic” and “World Book Encyclopedias.”
Kristiana now has more than thirty novels in series such as “The Cabin Creek Mysteries,” “Prairie River,” “Hope’s Revolutionary War Diary,” “Royal Diaries,” “Legend of Jimmy Spoon” and several single standing novels. Her debut novel “Jenny of the Tetons” was an award-winning bestseller as she went on to win the Golden Kite Award. When she is not writing her novels, she loves to hang out with friends, watch the clouds, tap dance and go for a swim. Her “Cabin Creek Mysteries” is based on the bedtime stories that she would narrate to her children when they were young and restless.
Kristiana Gregory’s “The Secret of Robber’s Cave” opens to Jeff and David the lead characters of the series wanting to go to Lost Island. Their father had always told stories of Lost Island and robbers cave and they believe it would be an honor to go visit the island in memory of him. They are soon on the island and start walking around looking for adventure and soon stumble upon a foot. Back home, they tell Claire their cousin of their adventure and take her with them back to the Island. This time they find a fort which they name and decorate. When they tell Mr. Wellback of their adventures on Lost Island, he warns them of the danger and asks them to never visit the island again. But his stern warning makes them even more interested in the island. Meanwhile, the MCoys who are the biggest bullies in school have found the island. David, Jeff, and Clare learn of this when they find their favorite candy wrappers on their island. The presence of the bullies is not going to deter them from their adventures until the two boys get stuck in a cave. They believe Mr. Wellback may have something to do with their troubles but luckily Clare comes and gets them out. There are a lot of questions without answers and they will have to dig deep if they want to continue with their adventures.
Gregory’s “The Clue at the Bottom of the Lake” opens to David and Jeff being warned off Lost Island until Jeff turns twelve. They have also been told that they should never visit the island alone. However, they ignore all the warnings and are soon back on the island where things immediately start to go wrong. As soon as they land on the marshy ground, they have a feeling of dark secrets hidden in the overgrown pines and lingering mist. They thought the “Legend of the Robber’s Cave” was all myth but they are now starting to wonder if there could be something to it. Could the robber have buried the treasure on the island that he haunts and did he really die on Lost Island? Claire their nine-year-old cousin manages to convince their parents to allow her to go with her older cousins on their adventures and this just complicates things. The novel is full of ongoing suspense as it adds layers and twists of plot, unravels clues and adds layers to make for an intriguing story. The siblings may need all their gadgetry, courage and wits if they are to unravel the many shadowy mysteries of Lost Island.
Kristiana Gregory’s “The Legend of Skull Cliff” has the cousins Clare, David and Jeff trying to solve another mystery on Lost Island. In the middle of trying to unravel a mystery on the island, a young camper goes missing and they do not know what to make of it. Popular legend asserts that explorers who go to the island during the full moon will disappear, never to be found. Could he have been kidnapped or is the curse of the fool moon something real. The police investigations has unearthed evidence that points to kidnapping but the cousins conduct their own and believe that Willy is the perpetrator of a cruel prank. They had last seen him wearing flip flops and shorts and not in any condition to survive for days, out in the wild on his own. Will Jeff, David, and Clare be able to find the boy and unravel the mystery of his disappearance?
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