Books with author Margaret Carey

The first of an exciting action-packed adventure series perfect for girls and boys aged 9 to 14, this middle grade fantasy deals with friendship, loyalty and courage in the face of seemingly hopeless obstacles … It’s the beginning of the summer holidays and thirteen year-old Millie Morlock is the only student left at Dundrum Castle Boarding School. She’s already fed up and bored, but her boredom quickly changes to astonishment when she rescues a real, live fairy from the school’s walled garden. But trouble is already brewing: although Dulcie looks like the proverbial good fairy, her personality doesn’t match!The cunning fairy tricks Millie into going back to the enchanted Glens of Tir na Gleena with her, and Millie is suddenly catapulted into a world where magic is normal and anything human is barely tolerated. She’s devastated to learn that she won't ever be allowed to go back to Dundrum Castle, but when she finds out that she’ll also lose all memory of her human existence, her despair turns into determination to beat the cruel fairy laws. At first she has only herself to rely on, but gradually she attracts a group of weird and wonderful friends who are willing to risk everything to help her. Not least among her new friends is Toad, a courageous boy whose own memories of his human life are practically non-existent. Will Millie and Toad overcome their dismal fate with help from fairies and elves Sukie, BarnabusBart and YarabeeToot? Will they finally manage to escape from Tir na Gleena? Or will they be doomed to remain there forever and slowly grow old, unable to remember their previous lives when they were carefree youngsters with no knowledge of fairy trickery and deceit?

Everyone was talking about the sudden increase in the number of burglaries downtown, including the members of the Junior Detective Club. Their investigation soon lead them into dangerous territory. Death threats had been made to the reporter who uncovered damaging information and to the editor of the newspaper who subsequently refused to print her story. The reporter, Lenore Capshaw, was now missing. No one knew where she was.As Mitch pointed out to his sister, Stella, "If Lenny and her editor were getting death threats because of the information they had, why do you want to get that information?" But Stella had another reason for looking for Lenny Capshaw. One year earlier their father had received death threats because of a controversial legal case he was working on. Shortly after receiving those death threats, their father and mother were killed in a car accident. Now, Stella was convinced that she had to find Lenny before the reporter was killed. It was a matter of life and death.

Mitch and his friend, Gil, were excited about playing baseball on their school's team that season. They played for the love of the game and they were very good. Gil was an outstanding shortstop. He had already gotten calls from scouts. Mitch was a very good second baseman but he planned to be a lawyer like his father. Mitch's father was killed in a car accident one year earlier. He had been involved in a controversial legal case. Some people thought the car accident that killed him wasn't an accident. One of the people involved was still hanging around town. When he sees the name of second baseman, Mitchell Saint Saens, in the Sports Section of the newspaper and comes up with a devious plan. Gil also becomes a target. Someone doesn't want him to be on the team. He tries to scare Gil off the team and out of the country. Baseball season comes to an end in surprising and unexpected ways.

The Junior Detective Club is started by a teenage sister and brother after they discover two headstones with their mother's name on them. One headstone is old, small and is half buried in tall grass. The other is a large, polished headstone. The old headstone has no date of death on it, while the large, polished headstone has a date of death of two months earlier when their mother died. Both headstones have the same date of birth on them. The sister and brother find working on this mystery has pulled them out of their grief and mourning. Their friends join the process.Their success in solving this mystery encourages them to investigate more mysteries. They decide to form the Junior Detective Club.

In this story, the fifth in a series of Junior Detective Club stories, the circumstances around the death of Stella and Mitch's parents almost two years earlier become clear. The teenagers' missing grandfather, wealthy lumber baron Mitchell Saint Saens, returns to Alaska and helps his grandchildren bring the murderer to justice. Since the death of their parents, Stella and Mitch had been living with their other grandparents, Marge and Herb Spencer, but it wasn't working out. Marge and Herb didn't know what their grandchildren were doing most of the time and didn't seem to care. They hadn't provided a good home for Stella and Mitch so custody of the teenagers was given to their new grandfather, the original Mitchell Saint Saens.Life with this new grandfather was so much better. This grandfather wanted to know what his grandchildren were doing. He was concerned about their safety. Now Stella and Mitch could act like normal teenage siblings, but they still held Junior Detective Club meetings.

In 1907, photographer Edward S. Curtis arrived at the Wind River Reservation, hoping to document the Arapaho way of life before it vanished altogether. To preserve the legacy of warriors in battle, Curtis staged an attack on a village, planning to capture it on film. But it became all too real when the daughter of the tribe's chief was found murdered, and her killer was never identified. Now, Curtis' photographs are on display at the museum of St. Francis Mission on the reservation, and history seems doomed to repeat itself. A descendant of the tribal chief who appeared in Curtis's pictures has been shot to death, and the muesum's curator has disappeared. The two incidents may be linked to the century-old murder. Soon, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O' Malley will discover an even more disturbing connection to present-day events. Read by Stephanic Brush. 8 CD's 8.3 Hrs.