Kathleen Ernst
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious stranger arives at her rancho, Josefina begins to wonder about the tales she has heard while growing up about rumors of gold and silver buried in the hills and a ghostly Weeping Woman.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1812, ten-year-old Caroline becomes frustrated that her friend Rhonda and cousin Lydia are suddenly acting too grown up to enjoy winter fun with her, and her hurt feelings lead to dangerous decisions. Includes historical notes about growing up in the early nineteenth century.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A letter arrives for Caroline, asking her to come help her uncle Aaron and cousin Lydia on their new farm for the summer. Although Caroline is reluctant to leave her family, she's eager to lend a hand. So when she suspects that a thief has been stealing much-needed food from the farm, Caroline helps keep watch to guard against the uninvited visitor. Then she makes an unexpected discovery--and learns that some things are not as simple as they seem....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Caroline's father has just returned when they receive frightening news--British warships are sailing to attack Sackets Harbor. Every grown man, including Papa, has been called to defend the village. Mama and Caroline are left alone to guard Abbott's Shipyard as the battlefront draws ever closer. Caroline knows she must be brave to keep Papa's shipyard safe. But when the battle seems lost, Mama gives her a terrible order: burn the shipyard to the ground....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Caroline and her mother make a danagerous trip across Lake Ontario to the British fort where her father is a prisoner. When Mama isn't allowed to see Papa, it's up to Caroline to deliver a secret message to him--right under the nose of a British guard.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Caroline and her friends Rhonda and Seth go out fishing, they sight an American supply boat being pursued by a British warship, and Caroline must come up with a daring plan to notify the town and save the boat.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Caroline Abbott's father is taken prisoner during the War of 1812, she tries to stay strong by helping her mother run the family's shipyard and aiding American soldiers when the British attack her village.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
182 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
178 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
While staying with her Aunt Millie in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky in the summer of 1934, Kit tries to discover who is sabotaging a visiting folklore researcher.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
179 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Kirsten's neighbor and friend, Erik Sandahl, disappears, everyone believes he is skipping out on the money he owes Uncle Olav, but Kirsten believes that something is terribly wrong and sets out to clear her friend's good name.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
As the war continues into May 1945, eleven-year-old Molly finds herself pulled in many different directions trying to cope with her troubled father's return from war, the abrupt resignation of her favorite Red Cross volunteer, a scrap-paper drive, and a mysterious neighborhood prowler.