Books with author Elizabeth McDavid Jones

Gracie has landed her dream job at the Sandy Shores Zoo in southern Alabama, and is having an awesome summer playing with tiger cubs and taking care of the residents of the reptile house. Then the lights go out. Now with nothing working and communication gone, she and her coworkers must struggle to take care of not only themselves, but all of the animals in their care. As they work to adapt to a new way of life inside their zoo enclave, life in the idyllic beach town of Sandy Shores spirals out of control, and they will soon face a greater threat from outside the walls.

Felicity is spending the summer of 1776 at her family's Virginia plantation, King's Creek, where every day she rides her beloved horse Penny. Soon Felicity hears news that British soldiers are burning Patriot farms and stealing their animals. Then she finds evidence that makes her think the next raid could threaten King's Creek-and Penny! The book includes a Looking Back historical essay.

No longer allowed to associate with her best friend Sally, a tavernowner's daughter, Rachel decides to meet her friend secretly on an island outside of town, where they find a human skull and strange carvings on the stones and trees, leading them both on a dangerous adventure, in an enthralling mystery set in 1724 in Charles Town, South Carolina. Simultaneous.

Kit writes a newspaper story about how her dog, Grace, saved the Kittredges and their boarders from a house fire. Grace becomes a local celebrity, and all the attention is a lot of fun for Kit-until the night Grace mysteriously vanishes. But who would take Kit's dog, and why? At the end of the story, the Looking Back section provides interesting facts about pets during the Great Depression.