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  • The Search for Grissi

    Mary Francis Shura

    Paperback (Avon Books, June 1, 1990)
    Eleven-year-old Peter feels uncomfortable at home and school after his family moves to Brooklyn, until his search for his sister's missing cat opens up a new life for him.
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  • The Mystery at Wolf River

    Mary Francis Shura

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, May 1, 1989)
    Trying to find the owner of the dog they rescued from the river, Kate and her friend, Bugs Moran, discover an even greater mystery
    U

  • Marilee

    Mary Francis Shura

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Feb. 1, 1985)
    Following her fathers death, Marilee Fordham moves to colonial Jamestown, Virginia from England and finds herself unprepared for the rugged life.
    Q

  • Gentle Annie: The True Story of a Civil War Nurse

    Mary Francis Shura

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, March 1, 1994)
    A fictionalized biography of Anna Blair Ethridge, a Union Army nurse.
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  • Gentle Annie: The true story of a Civil War nurse

    Mary Francis Shura

    Hardcover (Scholastic, Aug. 16, 1991)
    A biography of Anna Blair Etheridge, a nurse during the Civil War, from childhood through her four years of service with the Army of the Potomac.
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  • Darcy

    Mary Francis Shura

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, July 1, 1989)
    Caught in the terrifying force of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, Darcy gains strength from the harrowing experience and learns to appreciate her own special qualities and those of the man she loves
    U

  • Kate's Book

    Mary Francis Shura

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Aug. 1, 1989)
    Midwestern prairies and covered wagons set the stage for the story of eleven-year-olds Kate and Tildy, mid-nineteenth-century pioneer children who, with their families, cross virgin soil to stake claims in Oregon
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  • Kate's House

    Mary Francis Shura

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Feb. 1, 1990)
    An eleven-year-old pioneer girl, Kate has trouble adjusting to her family's new life on the Oregon prairie and yearns to return to the East and rejoin her best friend Tildy
    T

  • Our Teacher Is Missing

    Mary Francis Shura

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, April 1, 1995)
    After Miss Dixon fails to show up for school one day, the children come up with all sorts of far-out theories to explain her disappearance, but Eliza is determined to find her favorite teacher. Original.
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  • Don't Call Me Toad

    Mary Francis Shura

    Hardcover (Putnam Juvenile, Jan. 27, 1989)
    An uneasy friendship with the strange, constantly angry new girl in her neighborhood leads eleven-year-old Jamie Potter to discover a hidden cache of money and stolen jewelry.
    T

  • Mister Wolf and Me

    Mary Francis Shura

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Aug. 1, 1986)
    Thirteen-year-old Miles desperately tries to prove his German shepherd has not been killing a farmer's sheep.
    T

  • The Josie Gambit

    Mary Francis Shura

    Paperback (Camelot, Oct. 1, 1988)
    Shy, twelve-year-old, chess-loving Greg is apprehensive about spending six months with his grandmother in Pineville, Illinois, but his relationship with the outgoing Nolan family involves him in some real-life chess moves with a troubled girl, that open him up to loyalty and friendship with people who really count.Through his friend Josie Nolan, Greg, a chess champion living at his grandmother's home in Illinois for six months, meets Tory, the prettiest--and cruelest--girl he has ever seen
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