This is another series by the American Girl company, but unlike other series, it does not feature any of the girls from the main American Girl books.  Each book in the series is a standalone, with no characters that carry over into other books.  The time periods and locations of each of the stories is different, too.  The reading level is also a little higher than the other American Girl books, more on par with Girls of Many Lands, or maybe a little below that level.  The girls in the stories tend to be around eleven or twelve years old instead of about ten, like in the original American Girl books.  The books are also written by different authors.

Books in the Series:

#1 The Smuggler’s Treasure (1999)

By Sarah Masters Buckey.

#2 Hoofbeats of Danger

#3 The Night Flyers (1999)

North Carolina, 1918. Pam Lowder has helped her father to raise homing pigeons, but now he is away in Europe, fighting in World War I (known as the Great War prior to WWII). Then, some of Pam’s best birds start to disappear, and she suspects that the stranger who has recently come to town is the one taking them. By Elizabeth McDavid Jones.

#4 Voices at Whisper Bend (1999)

Pennsylvania, 1942. Charlotte Campbell’s brother is a soldier, fighting in World War II.  Charlotte and other children in her class at school are taking part in a scrap metal drive to help the war effort, but someone steals the metal they’ve been collecting. Discovering who the thief is leads Charlotte to other startling discoveries. By Katherine Ayres.

#5 Secrets on 26th Street

#6 Mystery of the Dark Tower

#7 Trouble at Fort La Pointe

#8 Under Copp’s Hill (2000)

Boston, Massachusetts, 1908. Innie Moretti is an orphan who lives with relatives. She joins a library club with some of the other girls, but strange things start happening there: things move around or just disappear. The girls wonder if the building could be haunted, but then someone accuses Innie of being a thief! By Katherine Ayres.

#9 Watcher in the Piney Woods

#10 Shadows in the Glasshouse

#11 The Minstrel’s Melody

#12 Riddle of the Prairie Bride

#13 Enemy in the Fort

#14 Circle of Fire

#15 Mystery on Skull Island (2001)

Charles Town, South Carolina, 1724.  Twelve-year-old Rachel Howell has been living with her grandparents in New York since her mother died and her father went to South Carolina to establish a new life for them. Now, he has sent for Rachel to join him.  He has decided to remarry, giving Rachel the mother that he thinks she really needs, although Rachel has some doubts about her new mother.  She makes friends with the daughter of the local tavern-keeper, Sally, although they mostly meet in secret because her father’s fiance thinks that Sally isn’t a suitable friend for a young girl from a wealthy family, like Rachel. But, sinister things are happening on a nearby island that threaten Rachel’s family. By Elizabeth McDavid Jones.

#16 Whistler in the Dark (2002)

Colorado, 1867. Emma Henderson is embarrassed that her widowed mother has taken to wearing a Reform Dress with those hideous bloomers.  She worries about what everyone else will think, although her mother assures her that she’s doing it partly for her benefit, to prove the point that women are as capable as men.  Emma’s father was killed during the Civil War, and her mother had been heavily involved in war relief work in his absence. Now, her mother has also found a job working for a newspaper in the Colorado Territory.  Moving across the country is difficult enough, but it seems that someone doesn’t want them in Twin Pines. By Kathleen Ernst.

#17 Mystery at Chilkoot Pass

#18 The Strange Case of Baby H

#19 Danger at the Wild West Show

#20 Gangsters at the Grand Atlantic

#21 Ghost Light on Graveyard Shoal

#22 Betrayal at Cross Creek (2004)

North Carolina, 1775.