American Girl history mysteries
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American Girl history mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sent to live with relatives in New Orleans during the War of 1812, eleven-year-old Elisabet determines to find a smuggler's treasure to ransom her imprisoned father.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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In 1860, eleven-year-old Annie, who lives at the Red Buttes Pony Express station in the Nebraska Territory, 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 volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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11-year-old Susan encounters a mystery through an independent-minded female boarder and becomes involved in the growing suffrage movement.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.
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English
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Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery: In 1732, a twelve-year-old girl of Ojibwe and French heritage must clear her father of a stealing charge-or risk being separated from him forever Suzette Choudoir always looks forward to summer, when her family leaves the Ojibwe people's winter camp and returns to the summer gathering place on La Pointe Island. This year her papa, a French fur trader, hopes to win a trappers' competition....
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American Girl history mysteries volume 8
Language
English
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An eleven-year-old immigrant must clear her name when things start disappearing from a Boston settlement house Innocenza Moretti's parents died in a fire when she was two. Ever since, she's lived with her grandmother and seven lodgers in the flat downstairs from her aunt, uncle, and cousins in a crowded tenement in Boston's North End. Innie's world changes when she and her cousin Teresa become members of a settlement house where immigrant girls can...
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American Girl history mysteries volume 9
Language
English
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As the Civil War draws to a close, a young Virginia girl grieving over the death of her brother meets a Confederate deserter As the Civil War rages nearby, Cassie Willis and her family struggle to scrape a living from their small Virginia farm, while Cassie's father and beloved brother, Jacob, are away fighting with the Confederate army. When a letter arrives with the news that Jacob has been killed, Cassie and her dog, Hector, immediately go to the...
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American Girl history mysteries volume 11
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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In 1904, twelve-year-old Orphelia follows her dream by running away from home to join an all-black minstrel show headed for the Saint Louis World's Fair, and learns about her family's troubled past in the process.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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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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Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1754, with her own parents taken captive, twelve-year-old Rebecca must confront her fear and hatred of the Abenaki when a boy raised by members of that tribe is brought to the fort at Charleston, New Hampshire, just before a series of thefts occur
14) Circle of fire
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American Girl history mysteries volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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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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American Girl history mysteries volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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In 1724, twelve-year-old Rachel and her friend Sally discover a pirates' hiding place on a deserted island near Charles Town, South Carolina, and they suspect it may be connected to the woman who will soon become Rachel's stepmother.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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In 1868, twelve-year-old Emma and her widowed mother move to a tiny mining town in Colorado Territory to start a newspaper, but someone is determined to scare them away.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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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American Girl history mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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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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American Girl history mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Rose sets out to prove her brother's innocence when he is accused of shooting a politician during a Wild West show performance in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1886.
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Gangsters at the Grand Atlantic , American Girl history mysteries volume 20
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American Girl history mysteries volume 21
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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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
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American Girl history mysteries volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Twelve-year-old Elspeth Monro, a Scottish settler and weaver's apprentice on the North Carolina frontier in 1775, must find out who is betraying her Loyalist family during the months before the start of the Revolutionary War.