Leonard Wibberley Books In Order

The Mouse That Saved the West

Traces the history of hot air ballooning and describes the equipment, training, and techniques of the successful aeronaut.

John Treegate’s Musket

It is 1769, ten years since America’s colonial militia had joined with the British regular army and defeated the French for dominion of Canada. The current of feeling about what it means to be loyal to the King has changed. While many colonists are angry about England s unjust taxation, wealthy merchant John Treegate remains fiercely loyal and certain that an agreement can be reached between the colonies and their mother country. Deciding to travel to England to appeal to the government there means leaving his motherless, eleven year old son Peter on his own, apprenticed to one of Treegate s friends, a manufacturer of barrel staves. Peter s new master is not severe, but the senior apprentice is a vicious bully and worse. A chain of events leads to trouble for Peter involving murder, shipwreck, loss of memory, adoption by a strange and bitter Scotsman, until finally he is reunited with his father on the eve of America s battle for independence. First title in the acclaimed Treegate Series.

Peter Treegates War

Peter Treegate’s War, second in the Treegate series, begins by picking up both the course of the American War for Independence and the ongoing, more personal, clash of divided loyalty for 16 year old Peter. His father, John Treegate, and his foster father, the Maclaren of Spey, jealous and distrustful of each other, and worlds apart in thought and philosophy, are each making what seem to be impossible and irreconcilable demands of Peter. The resultant struggle, with Peter striving to be true to both men while also trying to discern and be faithful to his own calling, is colorfully played out across the slow, chaotic course of the war with the redcoats, in which the reader is shown both the cruelty and the decency to be found on both sides. For Peter there will be capture, imprisonment, and near escapes, as well as a significant unraveling of a mystery which began many years before in Scotland at the 1745 Battle of Culloden.

Red Pawns

While their uncle is in England trying to avert war, eighteen year old Manly Treegate and his twelve year old brother, Peter, go to the Ohio frontier to prepare for war against Tecumseh’s forces.

Flint’s Island

Recounts the further adventures of Long John Silver and his search for a fabulous pirate treasure.

Zebulon Pike: Soldier And Explorer

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