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  • Mystery at Chilkoot Pass

    Barbara Steiner

    Library Binding (Windmill Books, Aug. 1, 2009)
    At the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Canada with her father, uncle and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief.
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  • The Strange Case of Baby H

    Kathryn Reiss

    Library Binding (Windmill Books, Aug. 1, 2009)
    The earthquake of 196 in San Francisco is the setting for this page-turning mystery. Clara's dealing with the turmoil of her city in ruins when she finds a wriggling bundle on her doorstep. Readers follow along as Clara solves the strange case of baby H.
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  • The Night Flyers

    Elizabeth McDavid-Jones

    Paperback (Skyview Books, July 1, 2009)
    Pam and her father are experts in raising and training homing pigeons. When her birds start disappearing during the first World War, Pam suspects a mysterious stranger.
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  • Whistler in the Dark

    Kathleen Ernst

    Library Binding (Windmill Books, Aug. 1, 2009)
    It's 1867. Twelve-year-old Emma Henderson is mortified when Mother takes to wearing a Reform Dress--hideous bloomers! Worse, Mother has accepted a newspaper job in wild, far-off Colorado Territory. But even Emma can't imagine just how badly things will go in Twin Pines. From the moment she and Mother step off the stagecoach, it's clear that someone doesn't want them there. This book includes a detailed "Peak Into The Past" essay.
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  • Under Copp's Hill

    Katherine Ayres

    Library Binding (Windmill Books, Jan. 1, 2009)
    In 1908, eleven-year-old Innie joins the library club at a settlement house that serves immigrant families of Boston's North End, but when items and money disappear from the settlement house, Innie's past as a troublemaker puts her under suspicion.
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  • The Strange Case of Baby H

    Kathryn Reiss

    Paperback (Skyview Books, July 15, 2009)
    In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries.
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  • Trouble at Fort La Pointe

    Kathleen Ernst

    Paperback (Skyview Books, July 15, 2009)
    Suzette Choudoir has spent each of her twelve summers at La Pointe Island on Lake Superior, where Ojibwe people camp by the French fur-trade fort. It is 1732 and if her papa wins the trappers' competition, the prize will let him stay with his Ojibwe family year-round instead of wintering in far-off Montréal with the other French voyageurs. But a troublemaker sabotages the competition, and Papa. Only someone who's both Ojibwe and French can figure out what's going on -- someone like Suzette. This book includes a richly illustrated "Peak Into The Past" essay, glosseries of French and Ojibwe words, and an author's note.
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  • Circle of Fire

    Evelyn Coleman

    Library Binding (Windmill Books, Jan. 1, 2009)
    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.
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  • Ghost Light on Graveyard Shoal

    Elizabeth McDavid Jones

    Library Binding (Windmill Books, Aug. 1, 2009)
    In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda 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. Includes historical notes on the United States Life-Saving Service.
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  • The Night Flyers

    Elizabeth McDavid Jones

    Library Binding (Windmill Books, Aug. 1, 2009)
    Pam and her father are experts in raising and training homing pigeons. When her birds start disappearing during the first World War, Pam suspects a mysterious stranger.
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  • Riddle of the Prairie Bride

    Kathryn Reiss

    Library Binding (Windmill Books, Aug. 1, 2009)
    In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.
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  • Mystery of Dark Tower

    Evelyn Coleman

    Library Binding (Windmill Books, Jan. 1, 2009)
    In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with their aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.
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