Sarah Masters Buckey
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, makes friends with Cecile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, and is persuaded to change places with her at separate Mardi Gras balls.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
162 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
While volunteering as a magazine delivery girl in a convalescent hospital during the Second World War, Molly uncovers a mystery involving the theft of rationed food supplies for sale on the black market.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the yellow fever epidemic continues to ravage New Orleans and the orphanages become more crowded, Marie-Grace and Cecile help with the orphans, until Marie-Grace learns that her Uncle Luc's fiancee, Mademoiselle Oceane, has fallen ill.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
171 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Marie-Grace is excited that a well-known English opera company will perform at the very theater where she takes singing lessons from Aunt Océane, but as she and her friend Cécile help out backstage, the make disturbing discoveries.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
150 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Marie-Grace can't wait to begin her journey up the Mississippi River with her father. The steamboat they're traveling on is the biggest and fanciest boat Marie-Grace has ever seen. It's crowded with all sorts of interesting passengers, including Wilhelmina Newman, a girl her age. Wilhelmina is traveling alone, and she's carrying a secret in one of her trunks--clues to hidden Gold Rush treasure. Marie-Grace and Wilhelmina have to unravel the clues...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traveling to Paris in 1907 with Grandmary and the Admiral, Samantha and her adopted sister Nellie suspect that someone is trying to harm their beloved grandfather and stop his secret government mission. Includes a glossary of French words and an "Inside Samantha's World" essay about tourism and international tensions in Europe in the early 1900s.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Sent to live with relatives in New Orleans during the War of 1812, eleven-year-old Elisabet determines to find a smuggler's treasure to ransom her imprisoned father.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
181 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
When her family temporarily moves into a luxury apartment building in 1904 Manhattan, eleven-year-old Samantha tries to discover whether a series of mishaps is related to a curse on the building's owner.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 21 cm.
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.
