Amy Rubinate
A year after Stephie Steiner and her younger sister, Nellie, left Nazi-occupied Vienna, Stephie has finally adapted to life on the rugged Swedish island where she now lives. But more change awaits Stephie: her foster...
It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna—12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-year-old Nellie—are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go to America. But as the world war intensifies, the girls remain, each with her own host family, on...
2015 Edgar Award nominee for Best Juvenile Mystery. Truly Lovejoy's father has been injured by an IED in Afghanistan and is having trouble finding work, so the family moves to tiny Pumpkin Falls to run the family bookstore. Truly discovers an undelivered letter in a valuable autographed first edition of Charlotte's Web. The mystery inside the envelope leads Truly and her new Pumpkin Falls friends on a madcap treasure hunt around town, chasing
...5) Yours Truly
Another wild mystery needs to be solved and it's up to the Pumpkin Falls Private Eyes to solve it in this hilarious follow up to the heartwarming middle grade mystery, Absolutely Truly.
Even Truly Lovejoy has to admit that teeny-tiny Pumpkin Falls, New Hampshire, has its charms—like the annual maple festival, where tourists flock from all over to sample the local maple syrup, maple candy, maple coffee, and even maple soap! But when
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