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Books with author Kathryn Reiss

  • Time Windows

    Kathryn Reiss

    Paperback (Apple, April 1, 1994)
    After she moves into her eerie new house, Miranda discovers an old dollhouse with a strange little girl who appears only when Miranda herself looks through the dollhouse windows. Reprint.
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  • PaperQuake: A Puzzle

    Kathryn Reiss

    Hardcover (Harcourt Children's Books, May 1, 1998)
    While helping her sisters clean up a building that their parents are renovating, an aftershock of a recent earthquake dislodges a decades-old letter written to Baby V--and Violet is certain that somehow it has been written to her. As more and more mysterious writings from the past tumble into Violet’s hands, she and her sisters begin to delve into historical documents and newspaper articles from the 1900s--including the accounts of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake--in an attempt to unravel the mystery. But as the present earthquakes increase in frequency, the girls realize that their time is running out. . . .
  • Glass House People

    Kathryn Reiss

    Hardcover (Harcourt Childrens Books, April 1, 1992)
    Beth's mother decides to reunite the family after twenty years and drags Beth and her brother to a sleepy town in Pennsylvania, where Beth learns of her mother's tragic family history and begins to better understand herself.
  • The Strange Case of Baby H

    Kathryn Reiss

    Audio CD (Recorded Books, LLC, July 6, 2003)
    Complete and unabridged audiobook on compact disc. Includes 4 CDs.
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  • Pale Phoenix

    Kathryn Reiss

    Paperback (Point, Dec. 1, 1997)
    In a sequel to Time Windows, Miranda and her family learn that the pale runaway girl they have taken in has been wandering for more than four hundred years and is doomed to be thirteen years old forever. Reprint.
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  • A Bundle Of Trouble

    Kathryn Reiss

    Library Binding (Turtleback, March 1, 2011)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When Rebecca starts helping to watch her neighbors' fussy baby while they are moving in, she becomes convinced that they have been victimized by kidnappers that have been operating in their neighborhood.
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  • Paint by Magic

    Kathryn Reiss

    Library Binding (Demco Media, Aug. 1, 2003)
    After his mom suddenly starts acting old-fashioned, eleven-year-old Conner is transported back to 1926, where he must discover and break the mysterious hold an obsessed artist has on his mom that is trapping her between times.
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  • Blackthorn Winter

    Kathryn Reiss

    Hardcover (Harcourt Children's Books, Jan. 1, 2006)
    The last place fifteen-year-old Juliana wants to be is halfway around the world in Blackthorn, England, an idyllic seaside artists' colony her mother has dragged her off to while her parents weather a trial separation. Juliana misses her father terribly and doesn't understand why her mother needs to travel so far to resurrect her artistic self, which she claims to have lost in the marriage.Soon after they arrive in the tiny village of Blackthorn, the artists' colony is set on its heels by the murder of one of its own. Juliana feels compelled to solve the crime, but she is shocked and frightened when it seems that clues in the matter are hitting a little too close to home. Can she figure out who the murderer is before anyone else--herself included--gets hurt?
  • The Silver Guitar

    Kathryn Reiss

    Library Binding (Turtleback, March 1, 2011)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. While trying to find a way for her elementary school to help fund the seabird rescue following an oil spill in the San Francisco Bay, Julie investigates the theft of a rare guitar.
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  • Riddle of the Prairie Bride

    Kathryn Reiss

    Paperback (Skyview Books, July 1, 2009)
    Prairie life in the late 1800s was difficult without a full family to take up all responsibilities and chores. Ida Kates papa has sought a mail-order bride complete the homestead. When she arrives, why doesnt this bride look or seem like what was expected? Ida Kate investigates this mysterious woman.
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  • Paint By Magic

    Kathryn Reiss

    Paperback (Harcourt Paperbacks, Aug. 1, 2003)
    Paint by Magic (Time Travel Mysteries (Paperback)) - Greenlight [ PAINT BY MAGIC (TIME TRAVEL MYSTERIES (PAPERBACK)) - GREENLIGHT BY Reiss, Kathryn ( Author ) Aug-01-2003[ PAINT BY MAGIC (TIME TRAVEL MYSTERIES (PAPERBACK)) - GREENLIGHT [ PAINT BY MAGIC (TIME TRAVEL MYSTERIES (PAPERBACK)) - GREENLIGHT BY REISS, KATHRYN ( AUTHOR ) AUG-01-2003 ] By Reiss, Kathryn ( Author )Aug-01-2003 Paperback
  • Time Windows

    Kathryn Reiss

    Paperback (Graphia, Sept. 1, 2000)
    When Miranda moves with her family to a new house in a small Massachusetts town, she discovers a mysterious antique--a dollhouse. Through the windows, she is shocked to find what seem to be living people in the tiny rooms, and gradually she realizes that scenes from the lives of the big house’s past inhabitants are being replayed there.
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