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Gordy and his friends find secret rooms, mysterious burglaries, and a shadowy villain on the trail of a treasure supposedly lost in Johnstown's flood of 1889

School and Library:

9780689503061 | Atheneum, September 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Gordy and his friends find secret rooms, mysterious burglaries, and a shadowy villain on the trail of a treasure supposedly lost in Johnstown's flood of 1889

Wrongfully accused of stealing a valuable moonstone, Lek the conjuror determines to enter the dread Shadowland where the sun never shines and search for the long-sought Opal Mountains where he might find another stone with equally potent powers.

School and Library:

9780689502767 | Atheneum, September 1, 1983, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: When Lek is falsely accused of stealing a magical stone, he begins a dangerous journey to the Opal Mountain of Astarlind to find a replacement for the stone

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Searching for his missing lucky 'dreamstone' and the answers to some mysteries surrounding it, Runner, one of the swiftest Tiddi scouts, ventures into the northern Icelands and the grim mountain fortress of Gzel.

School and Library:

9780689501739 | Atheneum, March 1, 1981, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Aided by the magical wolves of Aam, Runner penetrates the awesome mountain fortress of Gzel to retrieve his stolen dream stone, the fabled Mirelidar, from the evil Lord Naghar

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Three children in an English village face danger as they try to track down the criminals responsible for burglaries in a strange old house.

Hardcover:

9780689501296 | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1979, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A series of mysterious burglaries takes place in Goslings House, an ancient manor rumored to be haunted, and eleven-year-old Richard Morgan decides to track down the criminals with the help of Francesca and her younger brother Nolly, a strange boy who cannot talk

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When he goes to live with his cousin at the family's ancestral home, a ten-year-old boy finds a secret room and clues that could help unravel the riddle of the family treasure.

Hardcover:

9780689501005 | Atheneum, March 1, 1978, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Sent to England to live with his only remaining relative in Boxleton House, ten-year-old Tommy Bassumtyte learns of a secret room that may be connected with an old rhyme about a treasure

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Ten-year-old Felicity's existence in a dreadful eighteenth-century orphanage, owned and run for profit by Parson Grout, is changed forever when the parson steals a sturdy wooden cupboard believing it to be magical

Hardcover:

9780689500596 | Encore Editions, August 1, 1976, cover price $2.79 | About this edition: Ten-year-old Felicity's existence in a dreadful eighteenth-century orphanage, owned and run for profit by Parson Grout, is changed forever when the parson steals a sturdy wooden cupboard believing it to be magical

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Ten-year-old Rosemary Walpole picks some thyme in her aunt's old herb garden and finds herself, with Parsley Sage, an elderly cat, in eighteenth-century Bennickport, Maine
By Jane Louise Curry and Charles Robinson (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780689500190 | Atheneum, February 1, 1975, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Ten-year-old Rosemary thinks the word 'Time' cut into a stone in her aunt's old herb garden should be spelled 'Thyme' until she picks a sprig of the herb around it and discovers herself back in the eighteenth century.

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When their farm and everything on it is reduced to miniature by a mysterious machine, Pete and his grandmother do all they can to keep themselves and their farm from being lost forever.
By Jane Louise Curry and Charles Robinson (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780689304279 | Atheneum, March 1, 1974, cover price $1.49 | About this edition: A young boy saves his grandmother's farm after it has been drastically reduced in size by Professor Lilliput's new invention

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When he exchanges medallions with the boy who appears to be his double, Dave goes back 800 years in time to medieval Wales.
By Jane Louise Curry and Charles Robinson (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780152590109 | Harcourt Childrens Books, June 1, 1971, cover price $5.25 | About this edition: After finding a medallion near the Ohio river, young Dave is transported to medieval Wales

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In the late 1700s, young Jamesina is suddenly forced into a life of hardship after she is kidnapped by 'spiriters,' taken away from her family in Scotland, sent across the seas and sold into slavery to Shaws Plantation in Virginia.

Hardcover:

9780689829321 | Margaret K McElderry, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In 1758 in Scotland, teenaged Jamesina MacKenzie finds her courage and resolution severely tested when she is abducted by 'spiriters' and, after a harrowing voyage across the Atlantic, sold as a bond slave to a Virginia planter

Paperback:

9780439409087, titled "Stolen Life" | Scholastic, January 1, 1948, cover price $4.50

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