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Alice B. Emerson
Book List in Order: 25 titles
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Ruth Fielding in Moving Picture
- Sep-2018
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What in the world are those people up to? Ruth Fielding's clear voice asked the question of her chum, Helen Cameron, and her chum's twin-brother, Tom. She turned from the barberry bush she had just cleared of fruit and, standing on the high bank by t...
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Betty Gordon at Boarding School, Or, The Treasure of Indian Chasm
"Me make you velly nice apple tart. Miss Betty." The Chinese cook flourished his rolling pin with one hand and swung his apron viciously with the other as he held open the screen door and swept out some imaginary flies. Lee Chang, cook for the bunk h...
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Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm, or, the Mystery of a Nobody
Betty Gordon, a recently-orphaned girl, becomes the ward of her uncle, Dick Gordon. Betty loves Uncle Dick from the moment that she meets him, but he must travel on business. Uncle Dick arranges for Betty to spend the summer at Bramble Farm, where hi...
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Betty Gordon At Mountain Camp
Betty Gordon and her friends enjoy Christmas vacation with the Littell family in Washington. While Betty is shopping one day, she meets a girl named Ida Bellethorne, who works in a store. Betty immediately likes the girl, who seems to be unhappy. Bet...
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Betty Gordon In The Land Of Oil; Or, The Farm That Was Worth A Fortune
Alice B. Emerson was a pseudonym used by a number of writers hired by the conglomerate Stratemeyer Syndicat to make popular kids books, especially for young girls. These include the Beth Gordon and Ruth Fielding series. ...
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Betty Gordon in Washington; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great City
Betty Gordon continues her stay at Bramble Farm, awaiting word from her uncle. Betty's friend, Bob Henderson, one day learns that a bookstore owner from Washington has looked over his records from the poorhouse. The man has information about Bob's mo...
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Ruth Fielding And The Gypsies; Or, The Missing Pearl Necklace
Helen and Tom Cameron plan an automobile trip upstream with Ruth Fielding. Soon after the friends depart, they seek shelter from a storm in an old farmhouse and are frightened by a couple of rough-looking gypsies. Ruth hears the men discussing a weal...
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Ruth Fielding At Briarwood Hall; Or, Solving The Campus Mystery
Ruth's greatest desire has come true -- to attend Briarwood Hall with Helen Cameron. As soon as the girls arrive, they are accosted by Mary Cox, known as the Fox for her cunning. Mary wishes the girls to join her club, the Up and Doing Club. Helen, i...
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Ruth Fielding At College; Or, The Missing Examination Papers
Fame is not always an asset -- Ruth Fielding ruefully draws this conclusion soon after she and Helen Cameron arrive at Ardmore College. Ruth finds that a certain group of girls, led by Edie Phelps, think that she is full of herself because of her suc...
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Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point, or, Nita, the Girl Castaway
As the school year draws to a close, Ruth and her friends plan a trip to Lighthouse Point with Jennie "Heavy" Stone. Mary Cox makes a point of telling Heavy that she has been slighted and that only members of Ruth's club are invited to go on the trip...
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Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch, or, Schoolgirls Among Cowboys
Where the Silver Ranch trail branches from the state road leading down into Bullhide, there stretch a rambling series of sheds, or shacks, given up to the uses of a general store and provision emporium; beside it is the schoolhouse. This place on the...
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Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp; Or, Lost in the Backwoods
Mr. Cameron has purchased a winter camp deep in the wilderness near Scarboro, New York. Helen and Tom have received permission to take Ruth and their other friends to Snow Camp for the latter part of their winter break. Before the friends depart, the...
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Ruth Fielding at Sunrise Farm, or, What Became of the Raby Orphans
The single gas jet burning at the end of the corridor was so dim and made so flickering a light that it added more to the shadows of the passage than it provided illumination. It was hard to discover which were realities and which shadows in the long...
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Ruth Fielding at the War Front; Or, the Hunt for the Lost Soldier
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...
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Ruth Fielding Down East or the Hermit of Beach Plum Point
Across the now placidly flowing Lumano where it widened into almost the proportions of a lake just below the picturesque Red Mill, a bank of tempestuous clouds was shouldering into view above the sky line of the rugged and wooded hills. These slate-c...
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Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie, or, Great Times in the Land of Cotton
"Isn't that the oddest acting girl you ever saw, Ruth?" "Goodness what a gawky thing " agreed Ruth Fielding, who was just getting out of the taxicab, following her chum, Helen Cameron. "And those white-stitched shoes " gasped Helen. "Much too small ...
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Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound, or, A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils
"And you once said, Heavy Stone, that you did not believe a poilu could love a fat girl " Helen said it in something like awe. While Ruth's tea-urn bubbled cozily three pair of very bright eyes were bent above a tiny, iridescent spark which adorned t...
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Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures, Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund
Ruth, Helen, and Tom watch a moving picture company film scenes near the Red Mill. As they watch, the starring actress, Hazel Gray, falls into the river and is swept downstream. Ruth and her friends rescue Miss Gray and take her to the Red Mill to re...
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Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest, Or, the Indian Girl Star of the Movies
The gray dust, spurting from beneath the treads of the rapidly turning wheels, drifted across the country road to settle on the wayside hedges. The purring of the engine of Helen Cameron's car betrayed the fact that it was tuned to perfection. If the...
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Ruth Fielding in the Red Cross, or, Doing Her Best for Uncle Sam
Popular children's novel first published in 1918, part of the Ruth Fielding series. Accordiing to Wikipedia: "Alice B. Emerson is a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Betty Gordon and Ruth Fielding series of children's novels. The w...
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Ruth Fielding In the Saddle, or, College Girls in the Land of Gold
"Will you do it?" asked the eager, black-eyed girl sitting on the deep window shelf. "If Mr. Hammond says the synopsis of the picture is all right, I'll go." "Oh, Ruthie It would be just-just scrumptious " "We'll go, Helen-just as we agreed last wee...
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Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill; Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret
Ruth Fielding, a recently-orphaned girl, arrives in Cheslow, New York to live with her uncle, Jabez Potter, at the Red Mill with his housekeeper, Aunt Alvirah Boggs. Ruth is greatly disappointed in the cold reception she receives. Uncle Jabez seems t...
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Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island, Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box
Ruth and Helen eagerly await the arrival of Jane Ann Hicks, who is to attend Briarwood Hall this year. The girls experience a great deal of worry when they learn that Jane's train has been wrecked. Jane is fine, but a boy named Jerry Sheming has been...
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Ruth Fielding On The St. Lawrence; Or, The Queer Old Man Of The Thousand Islands
At Jennie Stone's wedding reception, Helen and Tom Cameron are annoyed when Chess Copley is overly attentive to Ruth Fielding. Helen acts like she hates Chess, and Tom is intensely jealous and worried that Ruth may end up with Chess. Ruth is just as ...