American Girl history mysteries
Author
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
163 p. : col. ill., map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sent to live with relatives in New Orleans during the War of 1812, eleven-year-old Elisabet determines to find a smuggler's treasure to ransom her imprisoned father.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
130 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1860, eleven-year-old Annie, who lives at the Red Buttes Pony Express station in the Nebraska Territory, asks Pony Express rider Billy Cody to help her find the person responsible for sabotaging her favorite pony Magpie.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons while her father is away fighting in World War I, twelve-year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a German spy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyview Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
161 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In their Pennsylvania town in 1942 twelve-year-old Charlotte and her classmates collect scrap metal for the war effort only to have it disappear from the school basement.
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyview Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
147 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In New York City in 1914, eleven-year-old Susan encounters a mystery through an independent-minded female boarder and becomes involved in the growing suffrage movement.
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyview Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
146 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1928, Bessie's father takes her and her brother Eddie from their mother in North Carolina to live with their aunts in Harlem, and then her father mysteriously disappears.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early 1700s, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing, Suzette must use her knowledge of both French and Ojibwa ways to find the real thief.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1908, eleven-year-old Innie joins the library club at a settlement house that serves immigrant families of Boston's North End, but when items and money disappear from the settlement house, Innie's past as a troublemaker puts her under suspicion.
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyview Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
144 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1865, while helping her family keep their Virginia farm going through the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Cassie meets a Confederate deserter and a Yankee prisoner of war and tries to discover who has been stealing from the farm.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
131 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While working as an indentured servant for a Jamestown glassmaker in 1621, twelve-year-old Merry uncovers a case of sabotage.
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyview Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
162 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1904, twelve-year-old Orphelia follows her dream by running away from home to join an all-black minstrel show headed for the Saint Louis World's Fair, and learns about her family's troubled past in the process.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
163 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1754, with her own parents taken captive, twelve-year-old Rebecca must confront her fear and hatred of the Abenaki when a boy raised by members of that tribe is brought to the fort at Charleston, New Hampshire, just before a series of thefts occurs.
14) Circle of fire
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1958, Mendy puts herself in danger when she discovers that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to bomb the Highlander Folk School in order to disrupt a visit from Mendy's hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyview Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
178 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1726, twelve-year-old Rachel and her friend Sally discover a pirates' hiding place on a deserted island near Charles Town, South Carolina, and they suspect it may be connected to the woman who will soon become Rachel's stepmother.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
161 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1868, twelve-year-old Emma and her widowed mother move to a tiny mining town in Colorado Territory to start a newspaper, but someone is determined to scare them away.
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Danger at the Wild West show , American Girl history mysteries volume 19
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Gangsters at the Grand Atlantic , American Girl history mysteries volume 20
Author
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 21
Language
English
Description
On an island off the coast of Virginia, the daughter of a US Lifesaver investigates a series of suspicious shipwrecks It's 1895. Rhoda Midyette lives on Glenn Island, where her father is keeper of the US Lifesaving Station. He leads rescue operations whenever a ship hits the dangerous shoals around the island-which has happened far too often lately. One stormy night, when Rhoda and her father's team help the survivors off their destroyed boat, she...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Having fled the turmoil of Scotland, Elspeth Monro is learning to love her life in 1775 North Carolina. She likes her new friend and her weaving apprenticeship. But as Loyalists and Patriots strive to recruit her neighbors, a shadowy figure threatens her family. Davina Porter's nuanced narration highlights the polished prose of Kathleen Ernst, nominee for Agatha and Edgar Allen Poe awards. Listeners will also enjoy Mystery at Chilkoot Pass, another...