Books with author Alice B Emerson

THE RUTH FIELDING SERIES follows the adventures of young orphan Ruth Fielding, who's been sent to live with her uncle Jabez in New York. As she learns to live with her penny-pinching uncle, she solves mysteries, has adventures, and goes to war.• Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill, or Jasper Parloe's Secret• Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall, or Solving the Campus Mystery• Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp, or Lost in the Backwoods• Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point, or Nita, the Girl Castaway• Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch, or Schoolgirls Among the Cowboys• Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island, or The Old Hunter's Treasure Box• Ruth Fielding at Sunrise Farm, or What became of the Baby Orphans• Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies, or The Missing Pearl Necklace• Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures, or Helping the Dormitory Fund• Ruth Fielding down in Dixie, or Great Days in the Land of Cotton• Ruth Fielding at College, or The Missing Examination Papers• Ruth Fielding in the Saddle, or College Girls in the Land of Gold• Ruth Fielding in the Red Cross, or Doing Her Bit for Uncle Sam• Ruth Fielding at the War Front, or The Hunt for the Lost Soldier• Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound, or A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils• Ruth Fielding Down East, or The Hermit of Beach Plum Point• Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest, or The Indian Girl Star of the Movies• Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence, or The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands

THE BETTY GORDON MYSTERIES follow the adventures of 12-year-old Betty Gordon, a spunky orphan who has been sent to live on a farm. Over the course of the next few months, she solves several mysteries involving her missing Uncle, in the oilfields of Texas, finding buried treasure, and searching for a missing girl.• Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm, or, The Mystery of a Nobody• Betty Gordon in Washington, or, Strange Adventures in a Great City• Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil, or, The Farm that was Worth a Fortune• Betty Gordon at Boarding School, or, The Treasure of Indian Chasm• Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp, or, The Mystery of Ida Bellethorne

Mr. Cameron has purchased a winter camp deep in the wilderness near Scarboro, New York. Helen and Tom have received permission to take Ruth and their other friends to Snow Camp for the latter part of their winter break. Before the friends depart, they cross paths with a strange, sullen boy named Fred Hatfield, who comes from Scarboro. Mr. Cameron has a suspicion that the boy is a runaway and decides to take him back to his family in Scarboro. The Cameron party departs for Snow Camp with Fred Hatfield as an unwilling passenger. On a brief stop near Scarboro, Fred jumps off the train, and Ruth impulsively follows. Fred steals a wagon which is parked in front of a store, and Ruth jumps on board. What follows is a harrowing adventure in which the two are nearly attacked by a panther and are later rescued by a crazy hermit. The sharp explosion and the shriek of the panther seemed simultaneous. The hermit takes the two young people to Snow Camp, but Fred disappears just before they arrive. As fate would have it, Ruth encounters Fred Hatfield several more times during their stay at Snow Camp. In the end, Fred is reunited with his family, and Ruth and her friends return from an enjoyable vacation.

Betty Gordon continues her stay at Bramble Farm, awaiting word from her uncle. Betty's friend, Bob Henderson, one day learns that a bookstore owner from Washington has looked over his records from the poorhouse. The man has information about Bob's mother, and Bob decides to leave for Washington after Mr. Peabody cruelly beats him. Shortly after Bob departs, Mr. Peabody accuses Bob of stealing an unrecorded deed. Betty leaves for Washington after she receives a letter from her uncle. Upon her arrival, three girls are waiting for her at the station and take her to their home, where Betty expects to find Uncle Dick. Betty is shocked to discover that there has been a bad mix-up, and the girls have mistaken her for someone else. The Littell family graciously accepts Betty as their houseguest and makes her feel welcome. However, Betty continues to worry about her uncle. She discovers that he is no longer in Washington and has journeyed to Oklahoma. "You're not Uncle Dick!" she gasped accusingly. Betty worries when her telegram to Uncle Dick goes unanswered. The Littells show her around Washington, and Betty runs into Bob, who has learned that his mother had a share in an oil well in Oklahoma. After Betty and Bob endure one last unpleasant encounter with Mr. Peabody, Betty receives word from Uncle Dick, urging her to come to Oklahoma.

"I do wish you'd wear a sunbonnet, Betty," said Mrs. Arnold, glancing up from her ironing board as Betty Gordon came into the kitchen. "You're getting old enough now to think a little about your complexion."Betty's brown eyes laughed over the rim of the glass of water she had drawn at the sink."I can't stand a sunbonnet," she declared vehemently, returning the glass to the nickel holder under the shelf. "I know just how a horse feels with blinders on. You know you wouldn't like it, Mrs. Arnold, if I pulled up half your onion sets in mistake for weeds because I couldn't see what I was doing."Mrs. Arnold shook her head over the white ruffle she was fluting with nervous, skillful fingers.....