American girls collection. American girl mysteries
Author
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Samantha moves with her family into a luxury Manhattan apartment building in 1904 and soon becomes involved in investigating whether a series of mishaps is related to a curse on the building's owner.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In Virginia during the summer of 1776, Felicity hears that British soldiers are raiding Patriot farms and sets out to learn who is behind the attacks in order to protect her horse, Penny. Includes an informational section on this period in America's history.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1826 New Mexico, a mysterious stranger arrives at young Josefina's rancho, sparking her curiosity about the legendary gold and silver buried in the nearby hills and a weeping ghost rumored to haunt the countryside. Includes an informational section on this period in New Mexico's history.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While volunteering as a magazine delivery girl in a convalescent hospital during the Second World War, Molly uncovers a mystery involving the theft of rationed food supplies for sale on the black market.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy, a former slave, discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she escaped from only two years earlier. Includes an educational section on Reconstruction.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Kirsten Larson, a young Swedish girl on the Minnesota frontier, searches for an answer to the disappearance of her friend, Erik Sandahl, while her family and neighbors assume that he has skipped out on the harvest labor he promised and money he owes.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Kit, working as a reporter for the children's page of the "Cincinnati Register," goes to the local theater hoping to do an article on what goes on behind the scenes, and decides to do a bit of investigating on the side when the night's receipts are stolen.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Felicity, a young girl in colonial Williamsburg, decides to find out who is trying to cause trouble when an anonymous person begins falsely accusing people of helping the British--including her father.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity runs the household while her mother and siblings are away, but is distracted by her horse's ill health, two strangers in town, and the fear that a box of family heirlooms is haunted. Includes historical information aboutlife in colonial Williamsburg.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1935, twelve-year-old Kit Kittredge's dog Grace mysteriously vanishes and Kit tries to figure out who took her and why. Includes information about pets and dog shows during the Great Depression.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Rebecca attends summer camp in the country because of the spreading polio epidemic in New York City, she is troubled by a bully in her tent and another fellow camper who is strangely secretive.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After Rebecca meets a new family in her New York City apartment building and helps watch their fussy baby while they are moving in, she becomes convinced that they have been victimized by the kidnappers that have been operating in their neighborhood.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While trying to find a way for her elementary school to help fund the seabird rescue following an oil spill in the San Francisco Bay, Julie investigates the theft of rare guitar. Includes a "Looking Back" essay about benefit concerts in the 1970s.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Cécile Rey searches through many corners of 1854 New Orleans seeking a necklace, borrowed from her Tante Tay, that disappeared as she was exiting a crowded showboat. Includes facts about the 1850s.
23) The hidden gold
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Marie-Grace can't wait to begin her journey up the Mississippi River with her father. The steamboat they're traveling on is the biggest and fanciest boat Marie-Grace has ever seen. It's crowded with all sorts of interesting passengers, including Wilhelmina Newman, a girl her age. Wilhelmina is traveling alone, and she's carrying a secret in one of her trunks--clues to hidden Gold Rush treasure. Marie-Grace and Wilhelmina have to unravel the clues...
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Marie-Grace is excited that a well-known English opera company will perform at the very theater where she takes singing lessons from Aunt Océane, but as she and her friend Cécile help out backstage, the make disturbing discoveries.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In 1970's San Francisco, Julie is excited to take care of Ivy's talking parrot while her friend is on vacation, but strange things are happening at Ivy's house and an old friend of Julie may be to blame.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Caroline worries that British spies may be lurking in Sackets Harbor, but when strange things start happening at Abbott's Shipyard Caroline wonders if a spy, either someone she has known all her life or Papa's long-lost friend, is responsible.
27)
A growing suspicion: a Rebecca mystery
Author
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Traveling to Paris in 1907 with Grandmary and the Admiral, Samantha and her adopted sister Nellie suspect that someone is trying to harm their beloved grandfather and stop his secret government mission. Includes a glossary of French words and an "Inside Samantha's World" essay about tourism and international tensions in Europe in the early 1900s.
30)
The jazzman's trumpet: a Kit mystery
Author
Author
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
During the War of 1812, Caroline finds evidence that someone is smuggling precious supplies to the British and fears that the traitor may be her own uncle. Includes an "Inside Caroline's World" essay about smuggling during the War of 1812.