Books by Deborah Oswald
The Girls of Haviland
Coming in 2025: Liberation Twins
The Girls of Haviland
On the morning of September 2, 1918, the day before fourteen year old Jay McKenna is to leave home to attend the upscale Haviland Seminary for Girls on scholarship, she witnesses a girl falling to her death from a biplane flying over the family farm. Jay is shaken to learn that the girl, Violet Crane, was supposed to start at Haviland as
On the morning of September 2, 1918, the day before fourteen year old Jay McKenna is to leave home to attend the upscale Haviland Seminary for Girls on scholarship, she witnesses a girl falling to her death from a biplane flying over the family farm. Jay is shaken to learn that the girl, Violet Crane, was supposed to start at Haviland as well.Jay is frightened to attend the school where the news will be nothing but the stunning events that happened on her property. Yet she knows she must leave home. With her three brothers fighting in the Great War raging overseas, Da holds the remaining family hostage with his violent temper.As the “new girl,” and daughter of struggling immigrant farmers, Jay struggles to find her place at Haviland. She becomes the target of bullying and coercion. While Jay suspects the musically gifted and beautiful Nathalia is behind this, her complaints fall on deaf ears. Thankfully, she befriends Florence, the tough, determined newcomer ostracized because of her skin color. Can Jay learn from Florence how to stand on her own and fight for justice? Can the girls solve the mystery of Violet Crane’s death? Can Jay save her family?
Beyond Haviland
Coming in 2025: Liberation Twins
The Girls of Haviland
Beyond Haviland, the sequel to The Girls of Haviland, finds Jay McKenna forced to live in a a run down attic overrun by cats as she begins her junior year at Haviland. Jay decides to pledge a prestigious guild with near disastrous results. A new challenge finds her and Florence, with the help of a new friend, working undercover to expose
Beyond Haviland, the sequel to The Girls of Haviland, finds Jay McKenna forced to live in a a run down attic overrun by cats as she begins her junior year at Haviland. Jay decides to pledge a prestigious guild with near disastrous results. A new challenge finds her and Florence, with the help of a new friend, working undercover to expose an unscrupulous cigar factory manager. Danger and shocking revelations await Jay as she begins a new adventure.
Coming in 2025: Liberation Twins
Coming in 2025: Liberation Twins
Coming in 2025: Liberation Twins
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Coming in 2026: Netta's War
Coming in 2027: The McKenna Correspondent
Coming in 2025: Liberation Twins
Netta Outenhausen is a twenty-year-old nursing student at The Bellevue School of Nursing in Manhattan. During her three week vacation at her home in Croton Falls, New York, in the summer of 1917, she and her family become the targets of attacks based on the recent suspicions of Americans of German and Italian descent since America joined
Netta Outenhausen is a twenty-year-old nursing student at The Bellevue School of Nursing in Manhattan. During her three week vacation at her home in Croton Falls, New York, in the summer of 1917, she and her family become the targets of attacks based on the recent suspicions of Americans of German and Italian descent since America joined the war the previous April.
As more of Netta’s friends and colleagues join the war effort, she becomes compelled to do something to prove her patriotism. After she is betrayed by her own sister and left heartbroken, Netta makes a decision to do her part, no matter how impossible her chances of succeeding may seem. She doubles up on her coursework and fieldwork so that she can be eligible to serve with the Bellevue Mobile Hospital that is scheduled for deployment to France sometime the following winter.
Fate steps in at the last minute to secure Netta passageway on the ship that leaves for France in early March, 1918. Netta enters a world for which she is completely unprepared. She tends to soldiers who have been torn apart by shrapnel, have lost limbs to gangrene, are suffocating under the effects of poisonous gas, and whose minds have been ravaged with the horrors of war. She has to rely on the resilience instilled in her by her beloved Nonna to survive the hell that surrounds her.
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Coming in 2027: The McKenna Correspondent
Coming in 2027: The McKenna Correspondent
Coming in 2027: The McKenna Correspondent
People are Talking About "The Girls of Haviland"
A thrilling mystery wrapped in a compelling coming-of-age story set in early twentieth century Brewster, New York. I couldn’t get enough of the spot-on details of my hometown. Deborah Oswald has a knack for describing the beauties of upstate New York.
-Gail Garson Levine, author of Ella Enchanted
I was asked to read this book by a friend and it was a very pleasant surprise. The descriptive language, well developed and in-depth build up to a mystery, as well as character development had me enjoying the book from beginning to end. Bullying, racism, relational issues, teen angst, etc. are woven together in this mystery set during WWI. It is worth the read!
-K. Connor
This book is a must read!! The outcome was not as I expected. When I read the final chapter, I longed for more. I anxiously await the sequel.
-L. Lamont
Great read for all ages!!!
-S. Ducker
People are Talking About "Beyond Haviland"
After reading the first book in this series, it was evident that Deborah Oswald's next book would be amazing-- And It Is!!! This author truly has a unique writing style, captivating you to anxiously read on and learn how the characters will overcome each hurdle. The mood of the book reflects determination, acceptance, suspense, heartache and joy. I love Deborah's style of writing with descriptive scenarios throughout the book and how everything is beautifully brought together at the end. I closed the last page feeling very satisfied, especially when I read "I'm about to begin research on the third book..."
-Lynn
I'm excited to read this second book ! So much adventure, history, suspense and humanity. A Pleasure reading by the fire.
-B. Klien