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Author
Series
History mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
130 pages : color illustrations ; 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 sabatoging her favorite pony Magpie.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
145 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 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
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
162 pages : illustrations ; 20 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
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
163 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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
History mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
163 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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
History mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
144 pages : color illustrations ; 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
History mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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
History mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
163 pages : color illustrations ; 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
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
161 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
155 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
161 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 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.
Author
Series
History mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
2003
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
153 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the late nineteenth century, Rhoda investigates a wrecker that may be luring ships to destruction on the Virginia barrier island where her father is Keeper of a U.S. Lifesaving Station. Includes historical notes on the United States Life-Saving Service.
Author
Series
History mysteries volume 22
Pub. Date
2004
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Elspeth Monro, a Scottish settler and weaver's apprentice on the North Carolina frontier in 1775, must find out who is betraying her Loyalist family during the months before the start of the Revolutionary War.