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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Cushman, Karen. The Ballad of Lucy Whipple. -- New York : Clarion Books, c1996.
Listed in the Amazon.com Bookstore catalog.
ISBN: 0395728061.
SUMMARY: In 1849, a fictional twelve-year-old girl named California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough mining town in California.
 
A Journey to the New World
Lasky, Kathryn. A Journey to the New World : The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple. -- New York : Scholastic, c1996. -- (Dear America ; 3)
Listed in the Amazon.com Bookstore catalog.
ISBN: 059050214X.
SUMMARY: A fictional (!!) 12-year-old named Mem gives a diary account of her trip with her family on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World. (Note: No Whipples are known to have travelled on the Mayflower.)
Lovecraft, H.P. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. -- New York : Ballantine Books, c1941, 1971.
Listed in the Amazon.com Bookstore catalog. (A free copy is on the Web at http://www.deliverance.mcmail.com/lovecraft/ward/cdward.htm) 
ISBN: 0345354907.
Read this site's review of a fictional book that includes historical characters like Commodore Abraham Whipple, Rhode Island Governor Stephen Hopkins, and his brother Esek Hopkins (all Whipple descendants). Lovecraft is a Whipple descendant!

Fiction

Williams, Thomas. Whipple's Castle. -- Doubleday, 1988.
Listed in the Amazon.com Bookstore catalog.
ISBN: 0385242492.
Reported by L. Dale Whipple.
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