Hill has written only one other novel, Ghost Horses, published in 1996. This is a story of sixteen-year-old Tabitha Fortune, the daughter of a preacher who believes that a woman should serve her husband and God. When a paleontological expedition comes in the area to find dinosaur bones, Tabitha wants to join it, so she disguises herself as a boy to fool her father and the equally sexist Professor Parker, the leader of the excavation. Tabitha reveals herself at the end of the novel, only to join another excavation group, this time headed by a woman.

Some other historical fiction titles that might appeal to young adults are Harold Keith's Rifles for Watie, Gloria Houston's Mountain Valor, Ann Rinaldi's In My Father's House, and Janet Lunn's The Root Cellar.

Keith's novel is about the Civil War, as is Houston's Mountain Valor. The latter title is...