Elizabeth McDavid Jones
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c 1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When her homing pigeons disappear while her father is fighting in World War I, a twelve-year-old girl suspects a German spy may be responsible With her father in France, fighting in the war, Pam Lowder has the responsibility of taking care of the family's prize-winning homing pigeons on their farm. The birds are special because her father trained them to fly at night so they can bring messages to his family when he's not there. And now a stranger...
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their 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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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 9
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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 21
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their 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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity suspects that an amateur naturalist visiting her family's Virginia plantation may actually be a British spy mapping Patriot plantations in advance of British raids. Includes historical information about the Revolutionary War.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
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 about life in colonial Williamsburg.