Kathryn Reiss
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
173 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
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
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
When Julie visits Gold Moon Ranch, a farming commune in California's gold rush country, the back-to-the-land lifestyle seems idyllic at first. But peculiar problems keep cropping up, almost as if someone was trying to shut down the commune! Then, on a secret trip to an abandoned gold mine, Julie stumbles on a mysterious message that hints at long-lost treasure. Julie is desperate to find it, before danger closes in on Gold Moon Ranch.
4) Pale Phoenix
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Series
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Miranda isn't happy when sullen orphan Abby Chandler comes to live with her family. But Miranda's anger turns to shock when she learns the girl's horrible secret: Abby's parents and sisters were killed in a house fire in this very town--more than three hundred years ago. Somehow Abby survived the fire and has been living in a virtual limbo ever since.
Fifteen-year-old Miranda Browne, the extraordinary protagonist from Kathryn Reiss's first novel,...
5) Time Windows
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When Miranda moves with her family to a new house in a small Massachusetts town, she discovers a mysterious antique dollhouse. Through the windows, she is shocked to find what seem to be living people in the tiny rooms, and gradually she realizes that scenes from the lives of the big houses past inhabitants are being replayed there. With numerous deftly sketched characters, including a sympathetic boy next door, an intriguing plot, and such dividends...
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Something is terribly wrong with Connor's mom-she keeps slipping into bizarre trances. Connor suspects that the key to his mom's strange behavior is an old art book filled with paintings of a woman who looks exactly like her. But the artist who created those paintings died before his mom was evenborn.
Connor gets his chance to break the evil link between the past and the present when he is mysteriously whisked back in time to the 1920s. But can...
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
161 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
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
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
161 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
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.