American Girl history mysteries
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American Girl history mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[1999]
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.
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Pub. Date
c 1999
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When her homing pigeons disappear while her father is fighting in World War I, a twelve-year-old girl suspects a German spy may be responsible With her father in France, fighting in the war, Pam Lowder has the responsibility of taking care of the family's prize-winning homing pigeons on their farm. The birds are special because her father trained them to fly at night so they can bring messages to his family when he's not there. And now a stranger...
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American Girl history mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[1999]
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.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.
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Pub. Date
[2000]
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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.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2000.
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.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
While working as an indentured servant for a Jamestown glassmaker in 1621, twelve-year-old Merry uncovers a case of sabotage.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2001.
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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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.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
[2002]
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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American Girl history mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
At the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Canada with her father, uncle and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2002
Description
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Fancisco 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.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 19
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Twelve-year-old Rose sets out to prove her brother's innocence when he is accused of shooting a politician during a Wild West show performance in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1886.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
In 1925, after witnessing the violent actions of some gangsters, twelve-year-old Emily accompanies her older sister on a trip to a luxurious hotel on the New Jersey shore but worries that the gangsters have come to the same hotel. Includes historical notes on the time period.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their 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.