Kathryn Reiss
1) Time windows
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Thirteen-year-old Miranda moves with her family to a small Massachusetts town and a new house in which a mysterious dollhouse allows her to see into the past, where she discovers her new home exerts an evil influence on the women of each generation of inhabitants--including Miranda's mother.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After his mom suddenly starts acting old-fashioned, eleven-year-old Conner is transported back to 1926, where he must discover and break the mysterious hold an obsessed artist has on his mom that is trapping her between times.
3) Pale Phoenix
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When her parents take in a strange orphan girl with a mysterious past, fifteen-year-old Miranda decides to find out why she seems to have come from nowhere and how she seems to be able to disappear at will.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
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.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Fancisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries.