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Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2000.
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
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
[2000]
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
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2000.
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
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2000.
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.
11) Circle of fire
Author
Series
History mysteries ; 14
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
[2001]
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
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001.
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
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
[2001]
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
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
2001.
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
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
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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