Books written by Gary Blackwood

  • The Shakespeare Stealer
    The Shakespeare Stealer

    A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.

  • Shakespeare's Spy
    Shakespeare's Spy

    Readers swept up in the first two adventures about Widge and Shakespeare's players will be enthralled yet again by this third tale with its dramatic twists and turns and an ending worthy of the Bard himself.

  • Second Sight
    Second Sight

    In Washington, D.C., during the last days of the Civil War, a teenage boy who performs in a mind reading act befriends a clairvoyant girl whose frightening visions foreshadow an assassination plot on President Lincoln. Reprint.

  • Around the World in 100 Days
    Around the World in 100 Days

    Picking up where Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days left off, Phileas Fogg's teenage son, Harry, is in trouble. He has made a bet that he can drive a steam-powered motor-car around the world in 100 days.

  • Year of the Hangman
    Year of the Hangman

    Now, in 1777-the year of the hangman-George Washington is awaiting execution, Benjamin Franklin's banned rebel newspaper, Liberty Tree, has gone underground, and young ne'er-do-well Creighton Brown, a fifteen-year-old Brit, has just arrived ...

  • Mysterious Messages: A History of Codes and Ciphers
    Mysterious Messages: A History of Codes and Ciphers

    Here are the encrypted notes of Spartan warriors, the brilliant code-crackers of Elizabeth I, secret messages of the American Revolution, spy books of the Civil War, the famous Enigma Machine, and the Navajo code talkers.

  • Shakespeare's Scribe
    Shakespeare's Scribe

    When an outbreak of the deadly Black Plague closes the Globe Theatre, William Shakespeare's acting troupe sets off on a tour of England.

  • Curiosity
    Curiosity

    In 1835, when his father is put in a Philadelphia debtor's prison, twelve-year-old chess prodigy Rufus Goodspeed is relieved to be recruited to secretly operate a chess-playing automaton named The Turk, but soon questions the fate of his ...

  • Der Shakespeare-Dieb
    Der Shakespeare-Dieb

    Der Shakespeare-Dieb

  • Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark: Leveled Fiction Set 3
    Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark: Leveled Fiction Set 3

    This fun tale follows a boy and his family living on an Arkansas farm. Granny, Mama, and Daddy are sure a rainstorm is on its way and they are making preparations in spite of the youngster's skepticism.

  • Shakespeare Stealer

    Knights of Dark Renown

  • The Just-So Woman
    The Just-So Woman

    The Just-So Woman likes everything to be just perfect.

  • Shakespeares Schreiber
    Shakespeares Schreiber

    In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way.

  • Bucket's List
    Bucket's List

    Gary Blackwood. Priestley manage to place so many of his orphans in what he likes to call 'good homes'? ... and the Lancashire ones with either an S or an L. But what's truly bizarre is that the Derbyshire couples all have names ...

  • The Shakespeare Stealer
    The Shakespeare Stealer

    As full of twists and turns as a London alleyway, this entertaining novel is rich in period details, colorful characters, villainy, and drama. * "A fast-moving historical novel that introduces an important era with casual familiarity.

  • Curiosity
    Curiosity

    Intrigue, danger, chess, and a real-life hoax combine in this historical novel from the author of The Shakespeare Stealer Philadelphia, PA, 1835.

  • The Year of the Hangman

    The Yearling

  • Shakespeare's Scribe
    Shakespeare's Scribe

    When an outbreak of the deadly Black Plague closes the Globe Theatre, William Shakespeare's acting troupe sets off on a tour of England.