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Dan Carter and the Great Carved Face
by Mildred A. WirtAs Dan Carter and his pack of Cub Scout denners prepare for a pow-wow competition with another den, they encounter a work in progress of a strange carved face on the wall of a ravine. Suddenly items are missing and their pow-wow projects are damaged or missing. Then, two Navajo Indians turn up, suspicious and rarely friendly. Can they solve the mysteries before someone gets hurt?
The Fish Hawk's Nest
by Stephen W. MeaderAndy, while going fishing on a south Jersey island, finds a slaughtered cow and a small chest. Both lead to a smugglers ring and adventure in 1830s south Jersey and Philadelphia. Excellent historical fiction and great characterization
Geneva Summer: A Romance of College Camp
by Elisabeth Hamilton FriermoodDisillusioned and unhappy, Priscilla Patton set off for her first summer job as a waitress at College Camp on Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The daughter of the YMCA Physical Director in Stanton, Ohio, she had just finished an unhappy year as a freshman in a big mid- western university. Her unhappiness was largely due to the increasing indifference of her high school beau, a Harvard freshman, to whom she thought she was engaged. When she had arrived home at the beginning of vacation, she had found he was married. The summer was a busy one and brought Priscilla many new experiences. Her job meant real work but it was fun, too, and it helped her to resolve the conflict within herself as she tried to take her broken engagement in stride. A tall waiter from Texas entered the picture and resolutely set out to show Priscilla a new order of things.
The Green Cameo Mystery (Original Kay Tracey Mystery #6)
by Frances K. JuddExcitement, suspense--and KAY TRACEY go together! Brantwood is a quiet town, but it seems to have more than its share of excitement. Sometimes it's a kidnapping, or a mysterious theft in a "haunted" house, or a series of fires set by a sinister arsonist that alarms the townspeople. Whatever it is, Kay Tracey always finds herself right in the middle of the excitement! Kay, attractive sixteen-year-old high school girl, has a sixth sense for sleuthing. It has earned her a reputation as an amateur detective that many a professional might envy. Kay's closest friends, who share most of her adventures, are blue-eyed, blond Betty Worth, always full of pep, and her shy, sensitive twin, Wilma. The three somehow manage to combine common sense and .alertness and at the same time have a great deal of fun--sometimes in the tightest spots. If you like a mystery with plenty of hard-hitting action and suspense right down to the last line, follow Kay and her friends in this thrilling modern series. You'll find her books identified by the words "A Kay Tracey Mystery" and this insignia. It's the sign of good reading.
Little Mule
by John BurressThe hope that this is another Little Britches dies a-borning -- but those who like quiet, homespun novels, may find this sincere, unpretentious, pleasant reading of a boy and his family in rural Missouri in 1916-1918 The father, a Baptist minister, has died, and the mother is determined to hold her little brood of five together without taking Charity. Little Mule, the youngest, has at four earned his nickname by answering anything that displeases him with a kick. It takes two years-span of the story to turn him from a stealing, high-tempered baby into a not-quite credible paragon ready to take on the job of cotton field plowing to help earn the family's way. Despite a cyclone, a tear-jerking Christmas, a serious accident to the eldest son, and the mother's being done out of her husband's life insurance, this book is filled with humor and thoughtfulness.
The Lone Footprint (Kay Tracey Mystery #15)
by Frances K. JuddTwo fleeing figures scramble up the lonely hillside and disappear from Kay's view behind a rock ledge. Breathless, she climbs after them, determined to question them about the strange happenings at Owl's Hole, a summer resort. Suddenly a boulder comes crashing down the slope directly at Kay. She dodges quickly, the massive rock missing her by inches. By the time she has recovered and reached the ledge, the fugitives have accomplished a getaway! But Kay is far from discouraged. She has been asked to solve the mystery of the summer resort, and is determined to do it. Mysterious fires have broken out. Valuables have vanished. Weird voices groan after dark, and stealthy shapes follow unwary strollers. The Lone Footprint For a while, Kay's only clue is a single footprint. Whose is it, and why is he plaguing the innocent residents of Owl's Hole? Kay's clever detective work, with the aid of her two friends, Betty and Wilma Worth, carries her through one dangerous adventure after another. Jealous Ethel Eaton adds to the dilemma, nearly spoiling a perfect trap. Kay's search for the phantom troublemaker takes her to an unexpected solution, one that involves a missing member of her own family!
The Midnight Colt (Tack Ranch #5)
by Glenn BalchWould you buy a horse named Peck o’ Trouble? Peck o’ Trouble is a high strung race horse that won't settle down. Ben Darby is a boy from an Idaho ranch who sees some good in Peck and convinces his uncle Wes to loan him enough money to purchase the anxious horse. The trouble is Peck may have to learn how to walk again before he’s ready to run, and Ben only has one summer to train him, race him, and resell him.
The Mystery at Hartwood House (Vicki Barr, Book #7)
by Julie TathamVicki Barr's current assignment is helping Ruth Benson interview applicants at the Hartwood House Hotel in Chicago. Events take a strange turn when an attractive applicant named Linda Murray tries to leave before her interview and claims to have lost her memory. At the time, Vicki does not doubt Linda's story, since Linda appears nervous and confused. When Vicki tries to take Linda home to the address she supplied on her application, Linda flees from Vicki. Does the girl suffer from amnesia, or is she playing some type of bizarre prank? A famous actress, Chalice Dawn, occupies the room adjoining Vicki's. Vicki tries to help Miss Dawn when her vial of perfume, Chadawn, goes missing. Miss Dawn is quite superstitious and believes that she cannot go on stage on opening night unless she is wearing her Chadawn. Miss Dawn is frantic with worry that she won't be able to find it. Vicki is struck by something about Chalice Dawn that reminds her of Linda Murray. She can't quite figure out exactly what the similarity is, but Vicki is convinced that the unknown similarity is the key to solving both of her mysteries.
The Mystery at the Ski Jump (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #29)
by Carolyn KeeneWhen Nancy learns that the Drews' housekeeper has been duped by an elegantly dressed woman into buying a stolen fur piece, the young detective starts a search for the clever swindler. To Nancy's astonishment, she discovers that the woman is using the name Nancy Drew. The dishonest acts of the impostor point the finger of suspicion at Nancy herself and result in her being questioned by the police. Nancy's determination to capture the elusive, dangerous Mitzi Channing takes her to northern New York State and Canada. At a gala winter event Nancy meets this situation and turns the tables on Mitzi Channing and her fellow thieves makes another thrilling Carolyn Keene mystery. In the late 1950s the Nancy Drew books were shortened and condensed, This is the version published before the revision.
Pamela and the Blue Mare (with picture descriptions)
by Alice O'ConnellPamela is a young girl who had a terrifying experience with a horse. Gran, her grandpa, wants Pam to come to his horse ranch for the summer. Pam says, yes, as long as she doesn't have to go to the stables. Can Gran change her mind? Will Pam help with the newly born horse, Frosty, since her mother is sick? Will it help Pam get over her fear of horses? Images described.
Pat's Harmony
by Page CooperIn the fall, Pat's father had promised her a chestnut colt with two white feet she'd named Harmony. But Pat's father was killed in a rodeo accident, and, over the winter, the colt had been lost in the buttes of South Dakota. Pat was advised to forget him and pick another horse for her own. But in the spring, mud-caked, starved, rickety, and "not worth the powder to shoot him," Harmony was found, and given a second chance to become the outstanding horse Pat believed he could be. This is the fictionalized story of the real show horse Harmony, the beautiful chestnut horse that Pat developed into one of the nation's outstanding jumpers and working hunters.
Philomena
by Martin SixsmithNew York Times Bestseller. Now a major motion picture starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and nominated for four Academy Awards: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years. When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman. ” Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Philomena’s son was trying to find her. Renamed Michael Hess, he had become a leading lawyer in the first Bush administration, and he struggled to hide secrets that would jeopardize his career in the Republican Party and endanger his quest to find his mother. A gripping exposé told with novelistic intrigue, Philomena pulls back the curtain on the role of the Catholic Church in forced adoptions and on the love between a mother and son who endured a lifelong separation.
Rip: A Game Protector
by S. P. MeekUpstate New York is the setting for Colonel Meek's new dog story, in which Rip, a pointer, and his master, Budge Outland, a Game Protector for the State of New York, carry out the trying job of enforcing game laws in the interests of conservation. Out-of-season hunting and illegal fur trade are their main problems, requiring of them expert detection work and keen knowledge of the outdoors. Often at the risk of their lives, the two of them live through an exciting story of a little-known, yet extremely valuable branch of public service.
The Rolling Stones
by Robert A. HeinleinWhen the Stone twins made up their minds to leave Lunar City in a secondhand spaceship, they hadn't planned on having their whole family accompany them. But the Stones were not your ordinary Lunar family -- no way! -- and their voyage through the solar system sure proved it. What began as a simple business expedition to Mars soon mushroomed into a dangerous situation when Grandma Stone was lost in space. Then, just when everything seemed to be getting better, a Martian flatcat came aboard and fouled up the works. But the real trouble didn't get underway until the Stones headed for the asteroid belt to take up a mining proposition they, somehow, couldn't refuse...
The Secret at the Windmill (Kay Tracey Mystery #7)
by Frances K. JuddDoes Kay Tracey ever really take a vacation? A getaway to Lost Lake with her best friends, Wilma and Betty Worth, provides one adventure after another as they aid Juliana who only wants to get out from under a devious guardian's thumb... Is Juliana penniless, can she be reunited with her fiance, and what do her love of windmills have to do with her future and a rumored hidden fortune?
The Secret of the Red Scarf (Kay Tracey Mystery #1)
by Frances K. Judd#1 The Secret of the Red Scarf Kay Tracey regards the pale young man in electrified silence when he stares at her and cries out, "Sis! Sis! At last I've found you!" These strange words are the beginning of a baffling search by Kay for clues that will restore the memory of the appealing youth to whom she gives the nickname of Bro. This unexpected guest in the Tracey household, a victim of total amnesia, knows only that he must find his beautiful sister Helene. Kay's striking resemblance to the missing girl is to lead her through many risky episodes, but the young sleuth is determined, even against threats, to assist the unhappy boy. Kay has few clues. Why does Bro become frantic upon catching sight of a red scarf Kay plans to wear to a masquerade? And after its disappearance, Kay is plunged even deeper into the dangerous mystery. Her goal is to disprove certain sinister accusations, about which she learns, against Bro and Helene and to bring the brother and sister together.
Slipper Under Glass (Maggie Jones, Ballerina #1)
by Lee WyndhamThe Exotic World of The Dance... For seven years Maggie Jones has dedicated herself to the dance, dreaming of the day when she'll be Magda Jonescu, prima ballerina. She must prove herself not only to her generous Aunt Jo, who has paid for the lessons and sent fabulous gifts from exotic places, but also to her doubting family. Neither Maggie's father, who is allergic to her feathery costumes, nor her younger brother, who thinks dancing is for sissies, can understand the forces which drive Maggie to practice for hours on end. On Maggie struggles, assailed by doubts, but sustained by her dreams and a yellowed ballet slipper--kept under glass--in which Pavlova danced The Swan. Success comes to Maggie in a strange, unbelievable way and, faced with a golden opportunity, she must learn how to compromise reality with her dreams.
Stairway to Danger (Rick Brant, # #9)
by John BlaineIn the ninth Rick Brant book, a famous mobster known as Soapy Strade gets in a hit-and-run accident with Rick's sister Barby, injuring her. Rick vows to hunt him down and the chase soon leads to an abandoned amusement park, adjacent to a scientific laboratory engaged in cybernetic experiments. In the climax of the book, Rick and Scotty battle Soapy Strade in the long-abandoned amusement park, but even the help of an intelligent robot doesn't seem to be enough to win the battle...
The Strange Echo (Kay Tracey Mystery #2)
by Frances K. Judd"Turn back! Danger ahead!" The thundering voice, detached from any visible person, transfixes Kay Tracey as the warning fills the sky with a sinister echo. When the eerie reverberations die, the teenage detective and her chums, Betty and Wilma Worth, look at one another in horror. What is the source of the spine-chilling threat that suddenly casts a shadow of fear on the gay outing? Similar weird occurrences have struck panic into other vacationists at Lost Lake, and could cause the resort to be abandoned, with great loss to friends of Kay. From the beginning of her stay at the Worths' cottage, Kay is determined to pierce the veil of mystery that envelops the community. For one thing, she has made up her mind to assist kindly, gentle, old Mr. Nelson in his quest for a long-lost family fortune in Faraway Valley. Then, there is beautiful Hilda Arno, whose strange plight also has touched Kay's heart. The young woman is depending on the girl detective for help. Although Betty and Wilma are fearful, Kay feels she must dare the challenge of this nerve-tingling mystery. But little does she dream of the terrifying web of danger that lies ahead, waiting to engulf her if she should make one false step.
Stub: A College Romance
by Margueritte Harmon BroThis story is about STUB, christened Svend Wingate Larson--from his arrival at Quilby College from Wingate, Wisconsin, "on his own" for the first time to the end of his first year, during which he gains a new understanding of himself and the world around him. and Stubs roommates: ALDWIN ALASTAIR from Nebraska, with a single track interest in botany; JIM THOMAS, who called the sea home and couldn't see much sense in time spent on land, even in college; SAMMY GOLDSTEIN from New York, gifted, brilliant, and "proudly, eternally Jewish." and Stub's girl friends: CONCHITA ROSITA GOMEZ, who started the year for Stub on a high note when he fell disastrously head over heels in love for the first time; HANNAH, big, blond, generous, whose father was a Dutch copper king, and whose friendships were international; BONNIE, who was Jim's girl but who taught Stub and his friends a grief which was also grandeur; LETA LANE from Stub's home town, little, blond, and wistful, torn between two careers, science and ballet. From a kaleidoscope of friendships, bull sessions, dates, family problems, clubs, professors, adjustments, which form the pattern of every American co-educational college today, Margueritte Bro, the author of SARAH, has woven another thought-provoking novel for young people, as varied and interesting as young people themselves--a perfect introduction to college years.
Behind the White Veil (Vicki Barr, Book #6)
by Julie TathamVicki meets an old friend of her father's, Professor Hyacith, during one of her flights. The professor has heard a rumor of a valley warmed by hot springs which remains fertile throughout most of the harsh Alaskan winter. The valley is said to be shrouded by a mist most of the time which makes it nearly impossible to spot from the air. The professor plans an exploratory flight into Alaska in search of the valley and invites Vicki to go along as the flight stewardess. The cost of the flight is shared by all of the passengers, about whom the professor knows very little. The searchers find the valley, but the plane is damaged by a rough landing on the valley floor. Unable to take off or communicate with the outside world, the passengers face the horror of possibly never being rescued from the valley. The white veil shrouding the valley prevents them from signaling a rescue plane. The only way to escape is to find a way to scale the sheer walls of the valley. Escape is not the only problem since several of the passengers begin bickering almost as soon as the plane lands in the valley. Additionally, several of the passengers appear to have hidden agendas. Vicki finds an old letter dropped by one passenger which reveals that stolen crown jewels are likely to be found in the hidden valley. While the pilot works to repair the plane, Vicki races to discover the jewels and finds herself in grave danger.
The Brand New Parson
by Sara JenkinsThis is the story of young Robert Anderson's first year as a minister in a small textile mill town inSouth Georgia. When he arrived in Archibald Heights, he discovered that the teachers and books had not fully prepared him for the actual problems and situations that confront a brand new, young parson. Fortunately, the Reverend Jim Forbes could give him some wise advice. THE BRAND NEW PARSON is a novel of people and situations which are compellingly real, of romance which is tenderly appealing, of achievement which is enobling and significant, and of values which are enduring.
The Capture of the Golden Stallion: Golden Stallion #1 (Famous Horse Stories)
by Rutherford MontgomeryWhile checking out the wild horses above the bar L ranch, Charlie Carter finds a golden colt in Big Red’s band, and decides he must have the beautiful young horse. But can he overcome meat hunters, a broken hip, and his mother’s illness to catch the colt? And can he win the heart of Ellen Sprague, who is visiting again for the summer, and loves everything about the ranch, but is being courted by Dean Bailey, who is older and owns a showy convertible?
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. SalingerHolden Caulfield, a native New Yorker and a dreamer, is expelled from his Pennsylvania prep school. He travels back to his family's New York apartment, but spends three days time underground in the city before returning to his family. He struggles with growing up and finding meaning in his own life, spending much time in an alcohol-fueled daze to dull his pain. This is a classic coming of age story of an angst-ridden youngster, feeling misunderstood by the adults around him.