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The Smuggler’s Treasure: Book 1
176 pages America is at war with Britain in 1814, and 11-year-old Elisabeth Holder is suddenly alone. Her father—the only family she knows—has been taken prisoner by the British. Sent to New Orleans to live with relatives she’s never met, Elisabet soon learns that a treasure is hidden in her new home. Her desperate search to find the treasure and buy her father’s freedom brings her face to face with a famous pirate!
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Hoofbeats of Danger: Book 2
144 pages Eleven-year-old
Annie Dawson loves living on the Red Buttes Pony Express Station
in 1860, with daring riders like her friend Billy Cody racing through
to carry the mail coast to coast. But more than anything, Annie
loves the pony Magpie. When Magpie suddenly turns wild and dangerous,
Pa says she has to be shot. Annie’s sure someone is poisoning the
pony—but can she prove it in time to save her? |
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The Night Flyers: Book 3
160 pages 5When
her best homing pigeons vanish while her father’s off fighting in
World War I, Pam starts investigating a mysterious stranger. Has
she uncovered an enemy spy in North Carolina?
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Voices at Whisper Bend: Book 4
176 pages It’s
1942, and America has just entered World War II. Twelve-year-old
Charlotte Campbell wants to help the war effort, so she and her
classmates start a scrap metal drive. When all the metal is stolen,
Charlotte is furious. Her determination to catch the thief leads
her out on the river at night, where she must face the fear that
haunts her. |
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Secrets on 26th Street: Book 5
160 pages Eleven-year-old Susan O’Neal’s widowed mother takes in a boarder to help pay the rent—an Englishwoman named Bea. As Susan helps Bea unpack, she glimpses a letter with the words must be kept secret for now. Then her mother disappears, and Susan is sure Bea is involved. Her suspicions lead her into the suffrage movement of 1914.
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Mystery of the Dark Tower: Book 6
160 pages Why
is Bessie’s family being whisked away to New York City without her
mother? Her search for answers leads her into the exciting world
of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. |
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Trouble at Fort La Pointe: Book 7
176 pages In
1732, Suzette’s father, a French voyageur, is accused of theft.
She must use both sides of her heritage—her Ojibwe skills in the
woods and her ability to read and speak French—to clear his name.
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Under Copp’s Hill: Book 8
176 pages Things are disappearing from the Boston settlement house where Innie goes for her library club in 1908. As she tries to unravel the mystery, she starts looking guilty herself! |
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Watcher in the Piney Woods: Book 9
160 pages Near the end of the Civil War in 1865, Cassie stumbles upon a crazy deserter hiding out near her Virginia farm. She’s worried for her family’s safety. Is he watching them from the woods, planning to steal—or worse?
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Shadows in the Glasshouse: Book 10
144 pages In 1621, Merry is kidnapped in England and brought to the Jamestown settlement in the New World. She’s forced to work at the glasshouse, where an intruder is set on sabotage! |
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The Minstrel’s Melody: Book 11
176 pages 5In
1904, 12-year-old Orphelia Bruce runs away from her small town of
Calico Creek, Missouri, to pursue her dream of being a singer. She
stows away on a traveling minstrel show headed for the St. Louis
World’s Fair—but her family’s troubled past follows her.
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Riddle of the Prairie Bride: Book 12
176 pages Twelve-year-old
Ida Kate Deming and her widowed father are welcoming a mail-order
bride to their Kansas homestead in 1878. But Ida Kate soon suspects
that the bride is not the woman that Papa has been corresponding
with! |
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Enemy in the Fort: Book 13
176 pages In a remote New Hampshire fort in 1754, 12-year-old Rebecca Percy awaits word of her parents and brother, who were captured by Abenaki Indians. When a boy raised by the Abenakis comes to stay with her, a rash of thefts takes place. Rebecca thinks the boy is responsible, but the discoveries she makes while trying to prove his guilt shake her deepest beliefs about Indians—and settlers.
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Circle of Fire: Book 14
160 pages In
1958, 12-year-old Mendy Thompson discovers nighttime intruders in
her secret forest clearing in Monteagle, Tennessee. They’re members
of the KKK and are plotting to bomb Highlander School during a speech
by Mendy’s hero, Eleanor Roosevelt. With no one to turn to, Mendy
must find a way to stop the KKK herself. |
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Mystery on Skull Island: Book 15
192 pages It’s 1724 in Charles Town, South Carolina, and 12-year-old Rachel Howell is forbidden to see her only friend, Sally. When the girls meet secretly on a nearby island, they find mysterious carvings, a human skull . . . and more! Will Rachel survive a harrowing chase with pirates to solve the island mystery?
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Whistler in the Dark: Book 16
176 pages In
1867, 12-year-old Emma Henderson moves to the wilds of Colorado
Territory when her mother takes a job there as a newspaper editor.
But threatening notes, a suspicious fire, and an eerie nighttime
whistler quickly convinces Emma that someone doesn’t want them to
stay. |
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Mystery at Chilkoot Pass: Book 17
176 pages Gold
fever is sweeping the country in 1897. Twelve-year-old Hetty McKinley
becomes one of thousands who brave the dangerous 500-mile trek into
the Yukon in hopes of striking it rich. As she travels with her
father, her Uncle Donall, and Donall’s new friend, a strange assortment
of items begins to disappear. Could Hetty’s own uncle be the one
to blame?
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The Strange Case of Baby H: Book 18
176 pages Twelve-year-old
Clara Curfman has just survived the great San Francisco earthquake
in 1906 when she discovers a baby abandoned on her doorstep. Her
family takes the baby in, hoping it can fill the void left by the
death of Clara’s brother. But Clara soon suspects that the baby
is the victim of a kidnapping, not the earthquake! As Clara pursues
her suspicions, will she become the kidnapper’s next victim? |
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Danger at the Wild West Show: Book 19
176 pages Rose Taylor loves touring with a Wild West show in 1886. But things turn a little too wild when a military hero is shot during a performance—and the police arrest someone Rose knows is innocent. As she searches for the real shooter, Rose rides straight into danger herself!
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Gangsters at the Grand Atlantic: Book 20
176 pages It’s
1925, and 12-year-old Emily Scott can’t believe her luck when she
and her older sister Dorothy are invited to vacation at a fancy
hotel on the Jersey Shore. But Emily’s excitement turns to fear
when she spots a hotel guest she recognizes from the city—a dangerous
gangster! Dorothy’s busy impressing her wealthy friends, so it’s
up to Emily to figure out what the sinister man is doing at the
Grand Atlantic—and whether he means big trouble for the people Emily
loves most! |
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Ghost Light on Graveyard Shoal: Book 21
176 pages In
1895, Rhoda Midyette’s father is keeper of a U.S. Lifesaving Station
along the treacherous Virginia coast. One night, Rhoda sees a strange
light bobbing along the dunes off Graveyard Shoal. Could it be the
ghost of the Mangled Mariner, come to haunt the island? Or could
it be something far worse than a ghost?
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Betrayal At Cross Creek: Book 22
176 pages It’s
1775 and the Revolution is brewing, but the war feels far from the
remote North Carolina valley where Elspeth Monro lives quietly among
other Scottish settlers. Then someone begins to threaten her family,
trying to force them to join the rebels. When Elspeth’s grandfather
marches off to fight for the British, she is left alone to protect
her grandmother—and to figure out who is putting her family in danger!
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History Mysteries Boxed Set: Books 1-3 5
5/8" x 8" Includes The Smuggler’s Treasure, Hoofbeats of Danger, and The Night Flyers.
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History Mysteries Boxed Set: Books 4-6 5
5/8" x 8" Includes
Voices at Whisper Bend, Secrets on 26th Street, and Mystery of the
Dark Tower |
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History Mysteries Boxed Set: Books 7-9 5
5/8" x 8" Includes Trouble at Fort La Pointe, Under Copp’s Hill, and Watcher in the Piney Woods
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History Mysteries Boxed Set: Books 10-12 5
5/8" x 8" Includes Shadows in the Glasshouse, The Minstrel’s Melody, and Riddle of the Prairie Bride. |
5 5/8"
x 8"Copyright © 2004 American Girl, LLC. History Mysteries®, the History Mysteries logo, and all Pleasant Company Publications logos are trademarks of American Girl, LLC. All rights reserved.