Kathleen Ernst
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Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
347 p.
Description
Curator and occasional sleuth Chloe Ellefson is off to Minneapolis to help her friend Ariel with a monumental task. Ariel must write a proposal for a controversial and expensive restoration project: convert an abandoned flour mill, currently used as shelter by homeless people, into a museum. When a dead body is found stuffed into a grain chute, Chloe's attention turns from milling to murder. Back in Milwaukee, Chloe's love interest Roelke has been...
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When Pomeranian immigrant Hanneke Bauer reaches Wisconsin in 1855, she believes her dearest dreams are coming true. After reuniting with her husband Fridolin at his farm near Watertown, she will help create a true home. Instead, she receives the shocking news that he is dead.
Hanneke quickly learns that Wisconsin life is not as bucolic as it seems. Alone and destitute, she is determined to discover the details of Fridolin's death. Her efforts prompt...
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Four months after her turbulent arrival, Pomeranian immigrant Hanneke Bauer is still struggling to feel at home on the Wisconsin farm she inherited from her husband. She does savor a growing friendship with tinsmith Karoline Ketzler, but that solace vanishes when Karoline's daughter Jacobine finds her father dead from a vicious attack.
When the deputy sheriff's suspicions fall on Karoline, Hanneke employs her own talents to investigate the crime....
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
179 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
182 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 18 cm.
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
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
85 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 22 cm.
Description
Caroline is thrilled when her cousin Lydia and friend Rhonda stay at her house for the winter, but she begins to reconsider when Rhonda and Lydia spend all of their time together without Caroline.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
161 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Description
In 1868, twelve-year-old Emma and her widowed mother move to a tiny mining town in the Colorado Territory to start a newspaper, but someone is determined to scare them away.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
90 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 22 cm.
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
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
183 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.
Description
In 1826, strange occurrences on eleven-year-old Josefina's New Mexican "rancho" lead the young healer to wonder if old legends of lost treasure and the wandering ghost called La Llorona may be true. Includes a Spanish glossary and historical background information.
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xv, 388 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Description
Curator Chloe Ellefson is happily planning to spotlight home-front challenges and German immigrants at Old World Wisconsin?s first Civil War reenactment, but her overbearing boss scorns her ideas and proposes staging a mock battle instead. And when a reenactor is found dead at one of the historic site?s German farms, Chloe?s boyfriend, cop Roelke McKenna, suspects murder.
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Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 20 cm.
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A modern-day girl finds herself on the shore of Lake Ontario during the War of 1812, and as she and and Caroline Abbott experience life in this turbulent time, the reader is invited to choose how the twosome might help the Americans beat the British.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
During the War of 1812, Caroline finds evidence that someone is smuggling precious supplies to the British and fears that the traitor may be her own uncle. Includes an "Inside Caroline's World" essay about smuggling during the War of 1812.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
91 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 22 cm.
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
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
163 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 21 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old Elspeth Monro, a Scottish settler and weaver's apprentice on the North Carolina frontier in 1775, must find out who is betraying her Loyalist family during the months before the start of the Revolutionary War.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
93 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm.
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