Silver Dollar Girl

Author : Katherine Ayres
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 9780440417057
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silver Dollar Girl written by Katherine Ayres and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the 1880s, Valentine Harper heads West to the Colorado Silver Rush to find her father in this fast-paced adventure! Valentine Harper's father has been in Colorado for more than a year seeking his fortune in the Silver Rush. But she's tired of waiting for his overdue return. Aunt Margaret is nice, but Uncle Franklin seems unhappy to have an extra person in the house and Cousin Harold's pranks have been getting meaner. Unfortunately, a girl can't get far on her own in America in 1885. But with a haircut, the right clothes, and a big dose of courage, Vallie Harper just might make it on a journey across the country to look for her father, and pull off an adventure that will change her life.

Author : Katherine Ayres
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606241380
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silver Dollar Girl written by Katherine Ayres and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1885, unhappy living with her aunt and uncle in Pittsburgh, Valentine Harper disguises herself as a boy and runs away to Colorado determined to find her father who has gone there in search of gold.

Author : Roger Burdette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989959551
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl on the Silver Dollar written by Roger Burdette and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coin collectors have long believed Anna W. Williams was the model for George Morgan's 1878 silver dollar design, but was she? The author examines available evidence and suggests Miss Williams modeled for Mr. Morgan, but her likeness was not part of the standard silver dollar design.

Author : Maddie Spalding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781503820067
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silver Dollars written by Maddie Spalding and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the silver dollar coin, presents the history of the coin, and describes its value.

Author : Dwight L. MacPherson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980238525
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kid Houdini and the Silver Dollar Misfits written by Dwight L. MacPherson and published by . This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Harry Houdini runs away from home only to find himself a prisoner of Professor Murat's circus, where Harry and his new circus friends form their headquarters for their unique detective agency.

Author : Katherine Ayres
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 030753801X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macaroni Boy written by Katherine Ayres and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Great Depression, a boy who faces bullying stumbles upon a mystery and comes of age in this novel that integrates fact and opinion and has a rich 1930’s vocabulary. Extra material: An Author’s Note is included in the back of the book. Mike Costa has lived his whole life in The Strip, Pittsburgh’s warehouse and factory district. His father’s large Italian family runs a food wholesale business, and Mike is used to the sounds and smells of men working all night to unload the trains that feed the city. But it’s 1933, and the Depression is bringing tough times to everyone. Money problems only add to Mike’s worries about his beloved grandfather, who is getting forgetful and confused. Mike is being tormented at school by a loud-mouth named Andy Simms, who calls Mike “Macaroni Boy.” But when dead rats start appearing in the streets, that name changes to “Rat Boy.” Around the same time Mike notices that his grandfather is also physically sick. Can whatever is killing the rats be hurting Mike’s grandfather? It’s a mystery Mike urgently needs to solve in this atmospheric, fast-paced story filled with vibrant period detail.

Author : Margaret DiBenedetto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990593232
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silver Dollar Girls written by Margaret DiBenedetto and published by . This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silver Dollar Girls is a novel about heritage and women of strength. Mae McCain flees New York City at the beginning of the COVID pandemic to her great grandparents' abandoned farmhouse in the Catskills, where she has to learn to survive on her own. She befriends a young, motherless boy who lives nearby with his father. Through their experiences with nature and life in a rural valley, Mae and Wesley create a lasting bond. In the attic of the old house, Mae discovers her great grandmother's history in World War II, kept secret for decades.

Author : Margaret Dibenedetto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990593256
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silver Dollar Girls written by Margaret Dibenedetto and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 24-year-old Mae McCain flees from New York City at the beginning of the COVID lockdown to her great-grandparents' abandoned farmhouse in the Catskills, where she has to learn to survive on her own. She befriends a young, motherless boy who lives nearby with his father. Through their experiences with nature and life in the rural valley, Mae and Wesley create a lasting bond. In the attic of the old house, Mae discovers her great-grandmother's history in World War II, kept secret for decades.

Author : Amy Patricia Meade
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738716375
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Million Dollar Baby written by Amy Patricia Meade and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful young writer Marjorie McClelland leads a solitary, comfortable life in the quiet, post-prohibition town of Ridgebury, CT. Her tranquil life is disrupted when Creighton Ashcroft, a British heir with time and money to burn, purchases a deserted mansion with a mysterious history on the outskirts of town. Instantly smitten with the talented and beautiful Marjorie, Creighton craftily arranges an intimate meeting, but the mood is spoiled when they stumble across a body while touring the ample grounds of Creighton's new estate. With the intention of reaping the story's literary benefits, the two forge an unlikely partnership and research the mansion's sordid past, but they soon find themselves in the middle of an unfolding series of hidden murders and family deceit. On top of this, the handsome detective assigned to the case has caught Marjorie's attention--and Creighton's suspicious eye. The trio must work together to break through a web of deceptively demure townspeople and the discreet upper class to solve the mystery of the mansion's past before becoming victims themselves. Filled with rumor and humor, this historical thriller delights to its captivating close.

Author : Katherine Sharp Landdeck
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1524762822
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women with Silver Wings written by Katherine Sharp Landdeck and published by Crown. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, women pilots went aloft to serve their nation. . . . A soaring tale in which, at long last, these daring World War II pilots gain the credit they deserve.”—Liza Mundy, New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls “A powerful story of reinvention, community and ingenuity born out of global upheaval.”—Newsday When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Cornelia Fort was already in the air. At twenty-two, Fort had escaped Nashville’s debutante scene for a fresh start as a flight instructor in Hawaii. She and her student were in the middle of their lesson when the bombs began to fall, and they barely made it back to ground that morning. Still, when the U.S. Army Air Forces put out a call for women pilots to aid the war effort, Fort was one of the first to respond. She became one of just over 1,100 women from across the nation to make it through the Army’s rigorous selection process and earn her silver wings. The brainchild of trailblazing pilots Nancy Love and Jacqueline Cochran, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) gave women like Fort a chance to serve their country—and to prove that women aviators were just as skilled as men. While not authorized to serve in combat, the WASP helped train male pilots for service abroad, and ferried bombers and pursuits across the country. Thirty-eight WASP would not survive the war. But even taking into account these tragic losses, Love and Cochran’s social experiment seemed to be a resounding success—until, with the tides of war turning, Congress clipped the women’s wings. The program was disbanded, the women sent home. But the bonds they’d forged never failed, and over the next few decades they came together to fight for recognition as the military veterans they were—and for their place in history.