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The Mark on the Mirror (Judy Bolton Mysteries #15)
by Margaret SuttonGhosts, bad luck from broken mirrors, and a mystery around an unloved girl set the scene for Judy's latest adventure. It is only weeks until Lorraine and Judy's double wedding, but mysteries know no social schedule. From a masked man delivering a shower gift to being run off the road, Judy's head is spinning trying to put the pieces together in another mystery adventure.
Cherry Ames, Student Nurse (Cherry Ames #1)
by Helen WellsMeet the nurse who inspired a generation of young people to go into nursing. Smart, courageous, mischievous, quick-witted, and above all, devoted to the profession of nursing, Cherry meets adventure wherever she goes... <P><P> In Student Nurse, Cherry starts nursing school at Spencer with a mixture of anxiety and anticipation - would she have what it takes to be a nurse? She leaves her quiet town of Hilton, Illinois for the bustle of hospital life, to meet challenges she wouldn't have imagined. The U.S. is at war. Many nurses have gone to the front, and there is a shortage of RNs at Spencer--which Cherry and her classmates help to fill, as they learn the skills they need to graduate. And who is the mysterious patient in the secret room that no one seems to know anything about? Should Cherry risk expulsion to save his life?
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!
by M. E. KerrM. E. Kerr&’s first novel—hailed by the New York Times as a &“timely, compelling,&” and &“brilliantly funny&” look at adolescence and friendship It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn—Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf&’s dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job. Now his father has suddenly developed an allergy to Tucker&’s cat, Nader, a nine-month-old calico Tucker found underneath a Chevrolet. Tucker&’s beloved pet finds a new home with overweight, outrageous Susan &“Dinky&” Hocker, the only person to answer Tucker&’s ad.As Tucker starts paying regular visits to Dinky&’s house to check up on Nader, his life begins to change. Dinky introduces Tucker to her strange cousin, Natalia Line, a compulsive rhymer whom Tucker finds fascinating. And enter P. John Knight, who&’s fat like Dinky . . . and now, like Nader. With this odd cast of characters, a little world is created for big kids who need to go on diets. And who also, all of them, need to find out who they are.A story of friendship, self-image, and surviving adolescence, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! is also about the terror—and exhilaration—of daring to be yourself. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of M. E. Kerr including rare images from the author&’s collection.
The Innocent Wayfaring
by Marchette ChuteSomething quite different in the way of an historical story, for this novel of two young people and their mid-summer travels in fourteenth century England, seems not to be set in the past at all. There is laughter and romance and adventure, and Anne's ways of getting around the unsuspecting Nick seem as modern as today. The author says that stories of this period are almost always too heavy and solemn —for it was the period of England's great comic poet, Chaucer. That is why Anne and Nick take their way through pages that are filled with amusing situations and lively conversations. The author has added as decoration, entertaining chapter heads and tail pieces in the style of the period. For older girls.
The Portrait in the Sand (Dana Girls Mystery #12)
by Carolyn KeeneThe Danas' pottery teacher, Miss Warren, asks Jean and Louise to help her find her missing fiancé, F.B.I agent Richard Henley. The girls and Miss Warren stay with her aunt and uncle, the Pattons, while they work on the mystery. The Pattons fear that Henley has drowned, since his boat has washed up on shore. The Danas find few clues but wonder if the strange hermit, Ham Gert knows anything about Henley. Gert refuses to talk except to warn the girls away from the cliff and the beach. The girls become suspicious of Gert and wonder about the strange cries they hear coming from the top of the cliff. When the girls investigate, the cliff is deserted. The mystery proves difficult to solve, especially when Lettie Briggs appears on the scene and thwarts the Danas' investigation. How the Danas discover what happened to Richard Henley and help the government will thrill the reader from start to finish.
The Secret of the Barred Window (Judy Bolton Mysteries #16)
by Margaret SuttonJudy is about to be married, or is she? With less than 2 weeks until her wedding, she just can't manage to stay out of trouble! Her double wedding with Lorraine is on the rocks when Lorraine discovers an untimely secret, Judy loses her wedding dress and finds herself tangled up in an amnesic author's woeful tale. With Peter working toward becoming a G-Man, life is upside down.
Thunderhead
by Mary O'HaraKen McLaughlin's mare, Flicka, gives birth to an angry white colt that's so odd looking Ken's mother names him Goblin. But the colt has more to him that anyone knows. Is he a throwback to the Albino, or can he be the racehorse that the McLaughlins need to save their ranch from bankruptcy? Sequel to My Friend Flicka.
Cherry Ames, Army Nurse (Cherry Ames #3)
by Helen WellsIt is War time, the Allied forces are at war with Germany and Japan, and Cherry Ames, who has recently graduated from nursing school, wants to do her part to help win the war. She joins the Army Nurse Corps, but can she be all that she has to be to be in the Army? And will her heart let her make tough decisions even if it might mean being removed from the Army? Let's find out in this the third in the Cherry Ames series.
Cherry Ames, Chief Nurse (Cherry Ames #4)
by Helen WellsAfter receiving mysterious orders in Panama, Cherry is flown to a tropical island where she is assigned as a Chief Nurse candidate. But her commanding officer Colonel Pillsbee does not think she is the right person for the job due to her youth and good looks. Cherry attempts to show him that she is a good and confident nurse. Meanwhile she is put in charge of an injured flier with a mysterious wound who is not talking. Can Cherry and her brother Charlie figure out the mysterious wound and what it might mean before it is too late, and can they convince the senior officers to listen to them even if they are young? Enjoy this fourth book in the Cherry Ames Nurse series.
Cherry Ames, Senior Nurse (Cherry Ames #2)
by Helen WellsIt is Cherry's senior year, new classes new experiences and new troubles. What shall Cherry do after she graduates? What is wrong with the new doctor Lex? And what is going on in Dr. Fortune's lab late at night? Cherry tries her best with he wit her humor and some bumps in the road, and makes some great friends too along the way.
Dorinda
by Elizabeth HowardWhen Dorinda arrived in 1843 to stay with her aunt and attend school, Chicago was an exciting place, a little city on the edge of the frontier! It had lots of people, streets and sidewalks, and even a skyscraper 3 stories high. In school, Dorinda had a lot of catching up to do, but she also made friends and, with her aunt, reached out to those who needed a helping hand or a word of encouragement. At the end of the year, Dorinda must make a choice--will she stay in Chicago or return to Indiana?
Granite Harbor
by Dorothy Maywood Bird Gertrude HoweBack home in Texas, Terry Blake was the daring leader of her crowd in school and at the lake. But then came the accident and, although she wasn't seriously hurt, something happened to her nerve. She was ashamed to admit it, but she was "scary. And then, of all times, the Blakes had to move from sunny Dallas to Granite Harbor, on the wild shores of Lake Superior! How could a girl who was used to swimming in the warm water of White Rock Lake ever learn to endure the icy chill of Superior? How could a newcomer from the South keep up with a crowd of young people who had spent most of their lives on skiis, snowshoes, and iceskates? At first Terry hates the perpetual snow and ice and being continually called upon to do things she had never done before. But next door lives a family that has so much fun she cannot stay out of it. At the end of a year of good times and learning new skills, Terry finds that the north country does "get into your blood." And best of all, she is no longer afraid to do things. A book brim full of winter fun, with a special appeal for older girls.
The Good Ship Red Lily
by Constance SaveryToby is about to sail for America with his family, as his parents seek the freedom to practice their Puritan religion. After their plans are betrayed by their uncle, their rich grandfather kidnaps Toby and his brothers and sisters. Will their father successfully spring them from the trap laid to capture him, or will the seductive riches offered by their grandfather convince Toby to stay in England?
The Green Turtle Mystery
by Ellery QueenThis eerie mystery thriller features a vanishing girl, a Spanish-speaking parrot, and a time-telling turtle in a case that baffles even the Secret Service.
The Secret in the Old Well (Dana Girls Mystery #13)
by Carolyn KeeneWhen Arlene Sherwood disappears, the Danas' only clue is that Arlene received a dire prediction from a psychic reader. Did Arlene run away out of fear caused by the prediction, or is something far more sinister at play? Jean and Louise believe that Arlene has been abducted, especially after they learn that Arlene's father has also disappeared. Mrs. Sherwood soon receives a message from her husband, requesting that she place certain important drawings in an old well. The drawings are very valuable to Mr. Sherwood's work, and the loss of the drawings will be a great blow. Can the girls find Arlene and solve this mystery?
Three and a Pigeon
by Kitty BarneAfter their home is destroyed by a bom, 10-year-old Sandy and 13-year-olds Tess and Ivy move with their father to a farmhouse in the country. They meet a mysterious Belgian refugee, Emile, who works on an adjoining farm and is an expert on raising pigeons. Emile teaches them to raise and train homing pigeons, though he remains secretive about his own life and situation. The children devise a plot to unmask a Black Marketeer, using one of their pigeons to relay a crucial message. This is a lovely period piece, with well-drawn characters, lots of British ironic humor, and plenty of lore about pigeons.
Tomahawk: Fighting Horse of the Old West
by Thomas C. HinkleA young and spirited colt and a boy who loves horses match wits with a band of ruthless horse rustlers, determined to break the colt. How Tomahawk wins through to peace and happiness is told in this stirring adventure of the Western prairies. Tomahawk's mother, Old White Face, was a wild horse, captured by Jim Arnold, rancher, when Tomahawk was a young colt. Eventually, they let her go, but Tomahawk stayed, because of his pal, young Joe Arnold. Tomahawk's happy life with Joe ended when he was stolen by horse rustlers. Then followed an exciting period when Tomahawk, evading the rustlers, lived a perilous life in the wild country of the Old West. His fight with the old black cow, the terror of the prairies; his swim for his life in a swollen stream, filled with stampeding cattle milling around the desperate horse, and the climax in a wild horse trap, from which he is rescued by Jim Arnold, are only a few of the adventures that all Hinkle readers have come to look for in his books. Tomahawk is a great horse hero, worthy to stand beside Silver and Mustang.
Walkin' Preacher of the Ozarks
by Guy HowardGuy Howard's story is no echo of any other preacher’s autobiography--he is known to thousands of mountain people in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri as the Walkin' Preacher of the Ozarks. For the past ten years, Mr. Howard has walked an average of four thousand miles a year; his salary has averaged fourteen dollars a month. He has served dozens of pastorless communities in the Ozark area as pastor, teacher, music director, confessor and general advisor on matters of every description. Without thought of recompense, distance, or dangers, he is at the beck and call of these mountain people all hours of day and night. “Lavin’ away gran’pappy," taking the place of the proverbial shotgun, revival meetings, building the schoolhouse--these and other homespun stories are told with engaging candor and portrayed with forceful simplicity, honest religion, and against a setting about which most Americans know little.
Wilderness Clearing
by Walter D. EdmondsWILDERNESS CLEARING is Walter D. Edmonds’ first full-length junior novel. It is the story of a sixteen-year-old boy and girl--diffident, clumsy Dick Mount and clever, imaginative Maggie Gordon, who lived in isolated clearings, “imprisoned by the green silence of the wilderness of the Mohawk Valley.” To Maggie, Dick seemed a bit young and inarticulate, not at all romantic and heroic--though it was good to be able to depend on his unswerving loyalty. But when responsibilities came and danger threatened, with the desperate illness of Maggie’s father and the massacre of Dick’s brothers by marauding Indians, this typical young American proved that he could act with quiet courage and steadfast purpose--and assumed quite a new aspect in Maggie’s bright eyes. Here, as in all his books, Walter Edmonds has drawn upon authentic history for his background and main events, as well as for many of the characters of his stories. The Mount boys of whom he writes were killed by two Indians in the fall of 1777 for $16.00 and the copper kettle their scalps would bring that year at Fort Oswego. It was only a small episode in the opening of the Revolution in Northern New York, but it served to warn the border settlers that the Indians had been turned loose against them. After it happened, every man who heard of it knew that there would be no safety anywhere along the border settlements for anyone out of gunshot sound of the Mohawk Valley forts.
A Touch of Greatness
by C. W. AndersonTurf history is emblazoned with the great names that have adorned it--Man o' War, Colin, Sysonby, Exterminator, Count Fleet--but a little applause should be reserved for those not so richly endowed by nature who yet performed splendidly. Out of lesser cloth they fashioned their banners, substituting honesty for speed or courage for stamina. These are not great horses, perhaps. but of what they had they gave generously, often overcoming natural handicaps to give thrilling performances. They had color, appeal and, at least, a touch of greatness
Cherry Ames, Flight Nurse (Cherry Ames #5)
by Helen WellsCherry is excited about her newest assignment. She is a flight nurse, the one responsible for caring for wounded soldiers as they are flown out of combat areas to hospitals in safer places. And her assignment is in England. While there she befriends a wonderful and handsome pilot, Wade, makes friends with a young girl named Mureil and her grandmother and tries to do a favor for Dr. Fortune. Is Muriel's father a traitor to his country acting as a spy for the enemy? What are all the phone calls in German, the note in German, and the song that he taught his daughter, that is a old German song. What is going on? Can Cherry get to the bottom of this mystery and keep her head in battle to save all of her soldiers' lives?
The Clue In The Crumbling Wall (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #22)
by Carolyn KeeneWhile trying to locate a missing dancer who is about to gain a large inheritance, Nancy Drew finds a clue leading to the solution of yet another mystery. Beginning in the late 1950s, the Nancy Drew mysteries were revised and condensed. This is the version published before the revision.
The Heart of Man
by Gerald Vann"The Heart of Man" gives a vision of man--his nature, aspirations, and problems. Vann considers man as lover and maker, expressed in simple language with insight and compassion.<P> First he considers the heart of the individual man which longs to become one with the universe about and beyond him, and shows how only through love and reverence can man achieve this unity. Then Father Vann discusses man as maker of art, of the family, of the world, and of the Church, and comments on education and labor.
The Wind Boy
by Ethel Cook EliotWhen Nan, the strange girl from the purple mountains, answers an advertisement for a "general housework girl," worlds of fantasy, caring, and contentment are opened for a refugee family. Ethel Cook's novel of children Kay and Gentian, who learn to escape from the harsh realities of their life with the assistance of the Wind Boy, has intrigued readers for many years. Lorrie Holt shares the magic of the story in a light and lyrical manner.
With a High Heart
by Adèle De LeeuwHeart-warming story of a college student interning for the summer at a small town library in wartime, taking over the Bookmobile route and meeting a wonderful cast of characters on her circuit as books draw them together and connect them to the world. Nothing much of particular consequence happens, but this is a dream story for anyone who has ever fantasized about becoming a librarian (especially back when it was all about the joy of providing reading material).