American girls collection. American girl mysteries

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.

In 1765, the arrival of an injured stranger from another tribe, traveling alone and apparently unable to speak, arouses suspicion in Kaya's Nez Percé village. Includes glossary and historical notes on the Nez Percé Indians.

In 1776, Penny is concerned that the British Army will steal her horse and burn her family's plantation.

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.

When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier. Includes a brief overview of the experiences of African Americans during Reconstruction, the period immediately following the Civil War.

Kit, working as a reporter for the children's page of the "Cincinnati Register," goes to the local theater hoping to do an article on what goes on behind the scenes, and decides to do a bit of investigating on the side when the night's receipts are stolen.

Molly becomes weary and troubled in the spring of 1945 while doing her patriotic duty to help the U.S. win WWII, and when her father returns home safe, he seems slightly changed.

Shortly after her mother leaves on a trip, a package that contains family heirlooms arrives, and when strange things start to happen around the house, Felicity is convinced that the heirlooms are haunted.

After Rebecca meets a new family in her New York City apartment building and helps watch their fussy baby while they are moving in, she becomes convinced that they have been victimized by the kidnappers that have been operating in their neighborhood.

While trying to find a way for her elementary school to help fund the seabird rescue following an oil spill in the San Francisco Bay, Julie investigates the theft of rare guitar. Includes a "Looking Back" essay about benefit concerts in the 1970s.

Caring for Ivy's talking parrot while she is on vacation, Julie rapidly discovers that an old friend has been hiding secrets that might be causing strange occurrences at Ivy's house, in a tale inspired by the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill and the vegetarianism movement of the 1970s.

Samantha and Nellie's trip to Paris with Grandmary and the Admiral turns into a mystery when a suspicious accident and a hotel break-in make the girls believe that someone is trying to harm the Admiral.

Visiting her cousin's home located deep in the woods during the War of 1812, Caroline discovers a smuggling operation in support of the British and worries that her own uncle might be a traitor.