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Books in American%20Girl%20History%20Mysteries series

  • Betrayal at Cross Creek

    Kathleen Ernst

    Paperback (Amer Girl, March 1, 2004)
    It's 1775. Elspeth Monro, newly come from Scotland, is just beginning to feel at home in North Carolina, with a new friend and a weaving apprenticeship she loves. To Elspeth, the brewing Revolution feels very far away--until someone starts to threaten her own family, trying to force them to join the rebels. When her grandfather marches off to fight with the British, Elspeth is left alone to protect her grandmother--and to figure out who is putting her family in danger!
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  • Gangsters at the Grand Atlantic

    Sarah Masters Buckey

    Paperback (Amer Girl Pub, March 1, 2003)
    In 1925, after witnessing the violent actions of some gangsters, twelve-year-old Emily Scott accompanies her older sister on a trip to a luxurious hotel on the New Jersey shore, but worries that the gangsters have come to the same hotel. Simultaneous.
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  • Hoofbeats of Danger

    Holly Hughes

    Paperback (Amer Girl Pub, Sept. 1, 1999)
    In 1860, eleven-year-old Annie asks Pony Express rider Billy Cody to help her find the person responsible for sabotaging her favorite pony Magpie
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  • American Girl History Mysteries: Shadows in the Glasshouse, the Minstrel's Melody, Riddle of the Prairie Bride

    Megan McDonald, Eleanora E. Tate, Kathryn Reiss

    Paperback (Amer Girl Pub, March 1, 2001)
    Three History Mysteries books: Shadows in the Glasshouse, the Minstrel's Melody, Riddle of the Prairie Bride
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  • Ghost Light on Graveyard Shoal

    Elizabeth McDavid Jones

    Paperback (Amer Girl, Sept. 1, 2003)
    In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda Midyette investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their destruction on the Virginia barrier island where her father is Keeper of a U.S. Lifesaving Station. Simultaneous. 15,000 first printing.
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  • Gangsters at the Grand Atlantic

    Sarah Masters Buckey

    Hardcover (Amer Girl Pub, March 1, 2003)
    In 1925, after witnessing the violent actions of some gangsters, twelve-year-old Emily Scott accompanies her older sister on a trip to a luxurious hotel on the New Jersey shore, but worries that the gangsters have come to the same hotel. Simultaneous.
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  • Hoofbeats of Danger

    Holly Hughes

    Hardcover (Amer Girl Pub, Sept. 1, 1999)
    In 1860, eleven-year-old Annie asks Pony Express rider Billy Cody to help her find the person responsible for sabotaging her favorite pony Magpie
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  • Betrayal at Cross Creek

    Kathleen Ernst

    Hardcover (Amer Girl, March 1, 2004)
    In the deep forests of North Carolina's Cape Fear River Valley, the brewing Revolution feels very far away to Elspeth and her fellow Scottish immigrant neighbors, but when Elspeth's grandfather and cousins finally march off to fight on the British side, Elspeth is left alone to protect her grandmother. Simultaneous.
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  • American Girl History Mysteries Set

    Kathryn Reiss, Kathleen Ernst, Katherine Ayres

    Paperback
    Popular mystery books for tweens aged 10 and up.
  • Ghost Light on Graveyard Shoal

    Elizabeth McDavid Jones

    Hardcover (Amer Girl, Sept. 1, 2003)
    In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda Midyette investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their destruction on the Virginia barrier island where her father is Keeper of a U.S. Lifesaving Station. Simultaneous. 15,000 first printing.
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  • Circle of Fire

    Evelyn Coleman

    Library Binding (Demco Media, Feb. 1, 2002)
    In 1958, Mendy puts herself in danger when she discovers that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to bomb the Highlander Folk School in order to disrupt a visit from Mendy's hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.
  • Gangsters at the Grand Atlantic

    Sarah Masters Buckey, Douglas Fryer, Greg Dearth

    School & Library Binding (Rebound by Sagebrush, March 16, 2003)
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