Enemy in the Fort
10 best books like Enemy in the Fort (Sarah Masters Buckey): Whistler in the Dark, Circle of Fire, Mystery on Skull Island, The Minstrel's Melody, The Strange Case of Baby H, Mystery at Chilkoot Pass, Shadows in the Glasshouse, Under Copp's Hill, Danger at the Wild West Show, Hoofbeats of Danger
| Author | Kathleen Ernst |
| ISBN | 1584854855 |
The year is 1867, and Margaret Henderson is a Civil War widow. She’s also a social reformer, who advocates rejecting floor-length dresses in favor of the Reform Dress (which is essentially a knee-length skirt with pants under it). She wants women to be more than ornaments—she wants them to work....
| Author | Evelyn Coleman |
| ISBN | 1584853395 |
This is a great book for young readers who don't know much about growing up in the South in the 1950's. Adults, too, can learn about the Highlander Folk School - a school for organizers attended by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks. The story is based on true events: the attempted assassination of Eleanor...
| Author | Elizabeth McDavid Jones |
| ISBN | 1584853417 |
I thought this was a fun creative book for young readers. It’s the type of book where the characters figure out the answer with some time before the end, and you’re waiting to finish the book to see how they make the truth come to light. It ends after and doesn’t do the whole boring after effect thing...
| Author | Eleanora E. Tate |
| ISBN | 1584853115 |
This is the 11th book in the History Mysteries series. The year is 1904 and a 12-year-old black girl named Orphelia has an excellent talent both for singing and for playing the piano. She loves to do both but her mother wants to restrict her totally to doing things only for the church and is very strongly...
| Author | Kathryn Reiss |
| ISBN | 1584855339 |
Twelve-year-old Clara Curfman has survived the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, and discovers a baby abandoned on her doorstep. Taking the baby in, her family hopes it can fill the void left by Clara's brother's death. But Clara soon suspects the baby is the victim of a kidnapping, not an earthquake....
| Author | Barbara Steiner |
| ISBN | 1584854871 |
This is book number 17 in the History Mysteries series and is about Hetty, a young girl is going with her family to the Klondike gold rush in 1897.
It's an interesting book for a variety of reasons. For one thing, it shows just how hard it was for people to act on their desire for easy gold. A great deal...
| Author | Megan McDonald |
| ISBN | 1584850922 |
I thought this book did a good job keeping a lot of history in this fictional story. It was so interesting to learn how important glassblowing was to the early colony of Jamestown, and how some of the events relating to it in the story were actually true. I don’t even really remember learning about indentured...
| Author | Katherine Ayres |
| ISBN | 1584850884 |
The American Girl History Mysteries helped to make me who I am today. These books (along with the Magic Tree House series) instilled in me a deep curiosity about how people lived in different historical time periods - they're the reason I majored in history in college, and why I work in the field that I do...
Danger at the Wild West Show
It's 1886. Twelve-year-old Rose Taylor, her older brother Zane, and her widowed mother belong to a traveling Wild West show (modeled after Buffalo Bill's hugely popular show). Though Rose dreams of starring as a trick rider, females are allowed to play only bit parts. On opening night in Louisville,...
| Author | Holly Hughes |
| ISBN | 1562478141 |
When I was younger, I absolutely ate up any book that the American Girls franchise published. And for good reason! Even after all of these years, when I re-read this one yesterday, I was sucked into this story, and I couldn't really believe how good it was. And when I say good, I mean, if I ever have little...
The Silent Stranger: A Kaya Mystery
| Author | Janet Beeler Shaw |
| ISBN | 1584859903 |
Kaya's village is preparing for the powerful winter Spirit Dances when an injured stranger arrives. The young woman doesn't speak, and no one can reach her but Kaya's beloved dog, Tatlo. Who is the stranger, and why is she so silent and alone? Will she bring harm to the village--or take Tatlo away from...
