Background
Daughter of William and Florence (a secretary; maiden name, Weill) LaFlower, Mrs. Travis was born in Whitehall, New York, United States, on October 16, 1931.
(While staying at his uncle's mission in New York City dur...)
While staying at his uncle's mission in New York City during the Civil War, twelve-year-old Ben and his friend Zack try to help a young girl escape from a gang.
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1995
(Two boys, one black and the other white, are kidnapped fr...)
Two boys, one black and the other white, are kidnapped from their Tarrytown, N.Y., home by Confederate spies and taken north along the Hudson River and into Canada
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1995
(Zack, a twelve-year-old Black boy who has watched the Civ...)
Zack, a twelve-year-old Black boy who has watched the Civil War continue for four bloody years, enlists as a drummer boy in the Union Army and finds adventure in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
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1995
(In 1864 when his family moves to Bellfield, Minnesota, wh...)
In 1864 when his family moves to Bellfield, Minnesota, where his father will be the town minister, twelve-year-old Ben misses his friend Zack, who is now a drummer in the Union Army, but he finds a new friend in an orphan whose parents were killed during an Indian raid.
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1995
(During World War II, Jeanmarie and her friends at Apple V...)
During World War II, Jeanmarie and her friends at Apple Valley Orphanage suspect their director of involvement with the black market and/or Nazi saboteurs, and, after writing to alert the FBI, they set out to prove it.
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2000
(During World War II, Jeanmarie, Pearl, and Wilfred from A...)
During World War II, Jeanmarie, Pearl, and Wilfred from Apple Valley Orphanage are hospitalized after a circus fire and, while exploring the nineteenth-century basement tunnels in New York City's Bellevue Hospital, they encounter a thief.
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2001
(In 1945, the girls at Apple Valley Orphanage believe the ...)
In 1945, the girls at Apple Valley Orphanage believe the quiet new Jewish girl is stealing stamps and other small objects, and that their housemother is being threatened by a strange man.
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2001
(Many years ago, a lone mouse fled as rats burned her vill...)
Many years ago, a lone mouse fled as rats burned her village. Wounded and footsore, she left her infant son in the care of the kind mice of Fleur Gardens. Then she vanished into the night. Now her son Horace has grown to mousehood, and he has a talent beyond any that Fleur Gardens has ever seen.
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2009
Daughter of William and Florence (a secretary; maiden name, Weill) LaFlower, Mrs. Travis was born in Whitehall, New York, United States, on October 16, 1931.
Lucille Travis completed her studies at Gordon College, obtaining Bachelor of Science in 1959. In 1975 she received her Master of Arts from Western Connecticut University.
Mrs. Travis worked as second-grade teacher. From 1971 to 1972 she served as a nursery school director and between 1990 and 1994 a part-time instructor in English at colleges in New York and Minnesota. Lucille Travis was a sponsor and tutor of Hmong refugees in 1985-1995. She performed women’s prison work with Prison Fellowship during 1990-1994. Mrs. Travis was a member of community outreach committee of local church from 1992 till 1994. Currently she is a teacher of drama in church congregations and writer.
(In 1864 when his family moves to Bellfield, Minnesota, wh...)
1995(During World War II, Jeanmarie, Pearl, and Wilfred from A...)
2001(During World War II, Jeanmarie and her friends at Apple V...)
2000(Zack, a twelve-year-old Black boy who has watched the Civ...)
1995(In 1945, the girls at Apple Valley Orphanage believe the ...)
2001(While staying at his uncle's mission in New York City dur...)
1995(The children at Apple Valley Orphanage befriend two Mexic...)
2000(Two boys, one black and the other white, are kidnapped fr...)
1995(Many years ago, a lone mouse fled as rats burned her vill...)
2009Quotations: "Sometimes the written books look very different from the tiny seed that sparked them, but I know that seed blew from some other story, wonderful and whole somewhere."
Lucille Travis married William Travis (a seminary professor) in 1953. They are the parents of three children: Philip, Christine Berry, Bryan.