Toni Eubanks

Octavia's Girl Scout Journey: Savannah 1916

An historical novel provides a view on how people in other times and places lived and interacted. What was it like to be a young girl growing up in Savannah in 1916? Octavia is a twelve-year-old girl coming of age as America prepares to enter World War I. With her open personality and acceptance of all people, she brings together girls from different racial groups and economic classes in an exciting adventure story.

Selected Works

Activity Guide with Historical References

Passage to Womanhood: Journey Home Activity Guide; iUniverse 2009
Introduces activities that correspond to each chapter of the novel, as well as explanation of historical events and people who appear in fictional form.

Historical Fiction

Octavia's Girl Scout Journey: Savannah 1916; Girl Scouts of the USA 1999
The first official historical novel on the Girl Scout movement.

Passage to Womanhood: Journey Home; iUniverse 2009.
An historical novel about a young African American girl coming of age in the Black West of the 1880's.

Essay

"A Sea Island Legacy," in Go Girl! The Black Woman's Book of Travel & Adventure. Elaine Lee, editor. The Eighth Mountain Press, 1997
An essay on my research experiences for my second Passage to Womanhood book on the Gullah culture of the Sea Islands of South Carolina.

Magazine

"Journey Through History with Historical Fiction," Girl's Life Magazine (the Girl Scout centerfold) February/March 2000.

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