American Girl history mysteries
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American Girl history mysteries volume 1
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Pleasant Co. Publications
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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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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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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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 sabatoging her favorite pony Magpie.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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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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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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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 her knowledge of both French and Ojibwa ways to find the real thief.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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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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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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In 1865, while helping her family keep their Virginia farm going through the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Cassie meets a Confederate deserter and a Yankee prisoner of war and tries to discover who has been stealing from the farm.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 10
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Pleasant Company Publications
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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While working as an indentured servant for a Jamestown glassmaker in 1621, twelve-year-old Merry uncovers a case of sabotage.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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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 occurs.
14) Circle of Fire
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In 1958, a girl risks everything to put a stop to a deadly Ku Klux Klan plot to bomb her Tennessee school
The middle child in a family of eight, Mendy Anna Thompson was named after her grandmother's hero—former first lady Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. Playing in the woods near her house in Monteagle, Tennessee, with Mr. Hare, her tamed wild rabbit, Mendy likes to imagine traveling around the world with Mrs. Roosevelt. But Mr. Hare is no...
The middle child in a family of eight, Mendy Anna Thompson was named after her grandmother's hero—former first lady Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. Playing in the woods near her house in Monteagle, Tennessee, with Mr. Hare, her tamed wild rabbit, Mendy likes to imagine traveling around the world with Mrs. Roosevelt. But Mr. Hare is no...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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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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Gold fever sweeps the country as a twelve-year-old aspiring writer travels to the Yukon with her family and best friend, fighting natural disasters and a clever thief
After traveling from San Francisco by steam ship, Hetty McKinley, her best friend, Alma, and their families prepare for the five-hundred-mile trek north to the gold fields of the Yukon. It’s only September, but the Arctic Circle is already frigid.
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After traveling from San Francisco by steam ship, Hetty McKinley, her best friend, Alma, and their families prepare for the five-hundred-mile trek north to the gold fields of the Yukon. It’s only September, but the Arctic Circle is already frigid.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 19
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American Girl
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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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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American Girl history mysteries volume 20
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American Girl
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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In 1925, after witnessing the violent actions of some gangsters, twelve-year-old Emily 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. Includes historical notes on the time period.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
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In the late nineteenth century, Rhoda investigates a wrecker that may be luring ships to 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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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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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.