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1) The Pyramids
Author
Language
English
Description
Why pyramids - a pyramid complex - kings of Egypt - building pyramids - craftsmen - daily life in Egypt - growing up - scribes and scholars - the next world - Egypt's lifeline - what happended? - Pyramids worldwide - date charts.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In New York City in 1914, eleven-year-old Susan encounters a mystery through an independent-minded female boarder and becomes involved in the growing suffrage movement.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 1
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.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
162 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In their Pennsylvania town in 1942 twelve-year-old Charlotte and her classmates collect scrap metal for the war effort only to have it disappear from the school basement.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
149 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
While working as an indentured servant for a Jamestown glassmaker in 1621, twelve-year-old Merry uncovers a case of sabotage.
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2000.
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pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
144 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Circle of fire
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
147 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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 occurs.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
173 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
162 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm.
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.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
163 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
161 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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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