Richard Hartmetz

New Orleans--September 1947. World War II has been over for only two years, the Civil War for slightly more than eighty. Segregation and racism are still running rampant in the Southern United States, including Louisiana. “Duke” Jefferson, an injured Black war vet and somewhat successful...

Something is coming! Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger receive an ominous warning that the barriers between realities are breaking down and darkness is spreading! Soon, nothing will separate Earth from Wonderland, Neverland, or Oz, which will result in the end of everything....

This story deals with the very real scourge of teenage depression and suicide in the most realistic manner possible, peeking into the lives of four very different young men as they encounter life’s struggles and how to deal with them....

Robin Caruso, the girl who sailed around the world, has defied the odds and returned home alive: just barely. Surviving pirates, angry natives, animal attacks, and the fury of the ocean, she now faces the wrath of the authorities that she evaded and the consequences of her actions....

Muriel Peterson’s grandfather is killed in 1976. Four years later, the guidance counselor at her new junior high school asks if she is a good American and offers to free her from the boredom of being a preteen in her small Pennsylvania town....

Dead! They were all dead! Murry Peterson is still dealing with the realization that her handler and three of her teammates are dead. Michael remains in a coma, and worst of all, she was the one who had killed Cliff, the love of her life, after discovering that he worked for the KGB. Now, another...

“I was pinned between the two most dangerous things on the island! I was either going to be murdered by the pirates, or eaten alive by the tiger, and right now, I wasn’t liking either of those options.” Robin Caruso is a typical teenage girl, who wants to live anything but the typical life...

A young boy lays dreaming on a grassy hill, escaping the harsh realities of the real world. His family pressures him to grow up and conform, but he resists....

Muriel Peterson longed to escape the confines of junior high school while living in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1980. When her guidance counselor revealed himself to be an agent of the CIA, he recruited her to help him on a mission....

A little bird sits high on a wire, watching the strange pink monkeys below him. Father bird warns him that they are dangerous, but he is curious and decides to ask the other animals about them....

When a state-of-the-art AI submarine—the Silhouette—vanishes during a classified operation, Commander Gordon Stewart is thrust into a battle he never expected to fight.