American Girl History Mysteries — Multiple Authors

• Sep-1999

It's 1814. America is at war with Britain, and eleven-year-old Elisabet Holder is suddenly alone. Her father -- the only family she knows -- has been taken prisoner by the British. Sent from Boston to New Orleans to live with relatives she's never me...

• Sep-1999

It's 1860. Annie Dawson loves living on the Red Buttes Pony Express Station, with daring riders like her friend Billy Cody racing through to carry the mail coast to coast. But more than anything, Annie loves the pony Magpie. When Magpie suddenly turn...

• Sep-1999

It's 1918. Pam Lowder and her papa raise the best homing pigeons on the North Carolina coast -- homers with the rare ability to fly at night. While Papa's away in World War I, a stranger with a foreign accent comes to town. Soon Pam's best birds star...

• Oct-1999

It's 1942. America has just entered World War II, and Charlotte Campbell's brother Jim has gone to fight. Twelve-year-old Charlotte wants to help the war effort too, so she and her classmates start a scrap metal drive. When all the metal is stolen, C...

• Oct-1999

It's 1914. Susan O'Neal's widowed mother takes in a boarder to help pay the rent -- an Englishwoman named Bea. As Susan helps Bea unpack, she glimpses a letter with the words must be kept secret for now. Susan forgets about the letter for weeks . . ....

• Mar-2000

It's 1928. Bessie Coulter's father whisks her from their North Carolina farm to Harlem, New York, with no explanation -- leaving Mama behind. Twelve-year-old Bessie's determination to find out what's happening to her family leads her into the midst o...

• Sep-2000

In the early 1700s, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing, Suzette must use...

• Sep-2000

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....

• Sep-2000

It's 1865. Near the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Cassie Willis learns that her brother Jacob has been killed while fighting in the Confederate army. Torn by grief, she runs to the secret thicket in the piney woods that she and Jacob loved --...

• Sep-2000

• Mar-2001

It's 1904. Twelve-year-old Orphelia Bruce dreams of being a musical star -- and she has the talent to make her dream come true. Her biggest obstacle is Momma, who forbids her to perform anywhere but at church in tiny Calico Creek, Missouri. When Orp...

• Mar-2001

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. Simultaneous....

• Aug-2001

It's 1754. Rebecca Percy lives in a New Hampshire fort on the edge of the English frontier. She's waited years for word of her parents, captured by Abenaki Indians. Then Widow Tyler, the kind woman she lives with, takes in a white boy raised by Abena...

• Aug-2001

When Mandy discovers that members of the KKK are using her secret forest clearing to plan a bombing of the nearby Highlander School during a speech by Eleanor Roosevelt, she must race against time to thwart the Klansmen's evil plot, in a thrilling my...

• Aug-2001

It's 1724. Soon after Rachel Howell joins her wealthy father in Charles Town, South Carolina, she becomes friends with Sally, the tavern-keeper's daughter. When twelve-year-old Rachel is forbidden to see Sally, the girls find a secret meeting place -...

• Mar-2002

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 ...

• Mar-2002

It's 1897. Swept up in the great Klondike gold rush, Hetty McKinley sails north with Papa and her dashing Uncle Donall. Landing in Alaska, Hetty feels excitement in the air. But as the McKinleys trek the rugged trail inland to Chilkoot Pass, their ad...

• Oct-2002

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. Simultaneous....

• Mar-2003

• Mar-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...

• Sep-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...

• Mar-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 thr...