More troubling is the author's approach toward Paige's and Meggie's acquaintance with the Native American characters in the story.

Ghostowners Series

The girls' behavior seems like a throwback to an earlier generation. However, the Ghostown series as a whole is inspired, for it kindles the imagination and encourages adventure. Using both suspense and humor, Calamity Jan introduces children to the rewards and the ethics of archaeology, and helps them think about the history of the American West in exciting new ways.

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Ghostowners Series by Jan Pierson

Nelson displays his oils, watercolors and sculptures through Saturday, Reed Daugherity, author of "Passionate Purpose: It features undertaker Emma Lee Raines. She works at the Eternal Slumber Funeral Home-- and she sees ghosts! This series started in and is set in California.

The Hardy Boys 1957 Mystery of Ghost Farm (all 12 episodes)

It features Granny Apples, who is a year-old ghost and her great-great-great-granddaughter, modern-day divorced mom Emma Whitecastle. Together, Emma and Granny Apples solve mysteries of the past. Penelope moves to Rhode Island with her son from New York after her husband commits suicide. Jack Sheppard helps Penelope solve murders.

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She co-owns the bookshop with her Aunt Sadie It features newly divorced Alison Kerby and her nine-year-old daughter. She is looking for a second chance so she returns to her hometown on the Jersey Shore to transform a Victorian fixer-upper into a charming-and profitable-guest house They specialize in restoration of historical homes.

Melanie finds herself renovating It features Carrie Singleton who is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut until she's offered a job as the head of programs and events at the spooky local library, complete The second book in this series takes place in Georgia so I'm categorizing this in Georgia.

It features Alabama Hargrove. It features Glory Martine who has inherited her uncle's Souvenir Shop Rose Pressey writes the Haunted vintage Mystery series which started in December and is set in Georgia.


  • Are You an Author?.
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Always on the lookout for stylish second The first book in this series will be available September It features textile preservation specialist, Kath Rutledge who inherits her grandmother's fiber and fabric shop in Blue Plum, Tennessee, and ends up with a depressed ghost on her hands. Skip to main content. Go Cozy Mystery Crazy! Angela Panther Mystery Series. When Lori Shepherd was a little girl she used to lie in bed at night with a stuffed rabbit named Reginald and listen to her mother's stories of the indomitable Aunt Dimity, who lived in far-off England.

Bailey Ruth Raeburn Series.

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After inheriting her uncle's Savannah, Ga. Bittersweet Hollow Mystery Series. Country Cooking School Mystery Series. This series which takes place in Missouri and started in January If Jan Pierson isn't poking around in some ghost town in the western United States, she's writing or speaking about the exciting history and mystery of the early West. It's been a wild and wonderful ride and Calamity Jan has only just begun.


  • Democracy in Peril: Are Schools Guilty?.
  • Ghost Girl In Car No. 9: Ghostowners?
  • Frontier Dreams.
  • Horrors of the Dancing Gods.
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Let sleeping ghosts lie? Available as a presenter, Calamity Jan will take educators back in time on a mining expedition where history blends with real-life mysteries, affording fertile ground for our journey toward new ideas and practical applications in the classrooms. The goal is to both inspire and teach using the lessons learned from an overly imaginative child me who wasn't even capable of coloring inside the lines of the expectations placed upon her.

The sessions will help educators mine the often well-hidden treasures and abilities within the Calamity Jans and Joes in their classrooms.


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