Marenga Publishing in Tel Aviv are working on a translation of A Twist of Malice into Hebrew for release in Israel.

Arrangements with Marenga Publishing (Tel Aviv) are now complete. The Hebrew edition of A Twist of Malice will be published at a date no later than two years from now, and probably sooner. To make the work go more quickly, the publisher, Milcah Klein, has divided the stories into three lots so that three translators can work on them. Then she will do the final edit. The stories went to the translators in January 2012.

Jean Rae Baxter is now working on her fourth young adult historical novel, Flute & Tomahawk. It returns to the story of Broken Trail, the “White Oneida,” who is now seventeen.

When Broken Trail was thirteen, his spirit vision revealed that he was destined to become a great leader, “both in war and in peace.” Now destiny catches him unprepared when the famous Thayendenegea, better known as Captain Joseph Brant, comes to see him. Thayendenegea has been looking for someone who can help him to achieve his dream of a new homeland for the native people. He sees Broken Trail as just such a person, but first he must be educated in order to prepare himself for this work.

Unenthusiastic, but eager to do his best, he sets out to attend a school for native students in Vermont. The school is fraught with hidden tensions and hostilities. The murder of a teacher sends Broken Trail fleeing for his life. But his flight to freedom sends him into even greater danger.

Will he ever be able to fulfill his mission, when just staying alive requires all his skill and courage?