Books with author Lois Walfrid Johnson

How could she have disappeared after getting this close?Full of anticipation, Kate O'Connell and her whole family wait at the Grantsburg train depot to meet her grandpa and grandma from Sweden. But when the Blueberry Special arrived and the last passenger stepped from the train, Grandpa and Grandma did not appear and no one knew anything about them. Hoping to find them at their last change of trains, Papa Nordstrom and Ben immediately boarded the train for St. Paul.But a telegram delivered in the middle of the night brings the scary news:WE MISSED GETTING OFF AT RUSH CITY STOPWE ARE IN DULUTH BUT MAMA IS LOST STOPHELP ME FIND HER STOPCOME TO IMMIGRANT ROOM STOPGrandma "lost"?! But as Anders, Erik and Kate rush to catch the next train to Duluth and find Grandpa, they will discover that Grandma is not simply lost someone has stolen her away!WHY WOULD ANYONE TAKE GRANDMA?WHAT HOPE IS THERE OF FINDING HER?

With the help of a Chippewa Indian boy, Kate and Anders race against time in - Trouble at Wild RiverIt was a cloudless March night when Kate, Anders, and Erik first spotted the timer swindler. On their way to see Joe, a Chippewa Indian boy who is helping his grandmother make maple syrup, they happen upon a man dressed in dark clothes. By a lantern's light, he is changing the ownership markings on logs that farmers plan to send down the river. Who is this thief? If only Kate and the boys could have seen his face!When Mama receives word that her brother Ben wants to visit, suspicion turns toward him. While living in Sweden, Ben stole money from a local merchant, then disappeared without a trace. Could he be the thief discovered the night before?Ben's letter gives them only two days to meet him or he'll leave, never to be seen by the family again. With Mama's baby coming soon, Kate and Anders must cross the St. Croix River without their father's help. Can they escape danger and find Ben before the sun goes down?The mystery of the timber swindler threatens them wherever they go!

Someone is trying to steal Kate's horse! Will she lose Windsong to a crook?With the reward money Kate received in Calumet burning a hole in her pocket, she, Anders, and Erik head to Charlie Saunder's livery stable to buy Kate a horse of her own. A beautiful black stallion is for sale, but when Kate discovers she can buy two poorly cared for horses for the price of one, she strikes a deal.While riding home with Windsong and Breeza, Kate and Erik are startled when someone tries to grab Windsong. Kate is able to elude the would-be thief and make it home safe, but she is frightened. Who would want to steal a scruffy, underfed horse? When Windsong's lead rope is deliberately untied and the horse disappears, Kate becomes convinced her horse must be more valuable than she first believed. Determined to keep Windsong for herself, Kate decides to solve the mystery but at what cost to her family?A dangerous thief, a mysterious mare, and a terrible fire-how will they escape?

With their father away, who will solve the mystery?In the darkness of a November night, Kate O'Connell awakens to the murmur of voices coming from below her room in the Windy Hill farmhouse. Sneaking down the stairs, she learns that Papa Nordstrom must take a job at a lumber camp to earn money for spring planting and be gone for two or three months during the worst part of the winter. Just when they had come together as a family, Papa must go.In his absence, all the children are given greater responsibilities for the farm. Them simply have to make it through the winter without him. And then Kate thinks of all the things that could happen on a northwoods farm in Wisconsin. What if something goes wrong?And things do go wrong. First in the community, then on the farm with some mysterious disappearances.Join Kate and Anders as the mystery unfolds!

Join Kate, Anders and Erick in the mystery of the - Vanishing FootprintsKate walked three miles that cold January day to pick up her family's creamery check. Yet she found that all the checks from the Trade Lake Creamery had been stolen the night before. No check means no money at least for now. No money means big trouble, especially with Papa Nordstrom away for the winter at a northwest Wisconsin logging camp.When Kate, Anders, and Erik discover the stolen loot, it seems they'll soon solve the mystery. Instead, they plunge into even bigger problems. Whom can they trust? What hidden danger lurks in the darkness, just beyond the dim glow of a lantern? Who is threatening their lives, not once, but again and again? And what will happen to Lars, the younger stepbrother Kate has learned to love?A secret room becomes important, boot prints in the snow suddenly vanish, and every warning points toward danger!The thief appears and disappears. How can he be caught?