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While on spring break from her girls' school in North Carolina in 1902, fourteen-year-old Mandie joins her college friend Joe in solving a mystery in the nearby mountains.Tags
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Lois Gladys Leppard (1924 - October 5, 2008) was the author of The Mandie Series of children's novels. As of 2004 there were forty Mandie books. The heroine lives in North Carolina in the early 1900s and encounters adventure and solves mysteries with help from her friends, family, and pet cat, Snowball. These young reader novels are meant to teach show more morals as well as be fun and captivating stories to read. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Mandie and the Buried Stranger
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- Mandie Shaw; Celia Hamilton; Joe Woodard; Grandmother Taft; Liza; Uncle John Shaw (show all 13); Elizabeth Taft Shaw; Dr. Woodard; Mrs. Woodard; Uncle Ned; Sallie Sweetwater; Dimar Walkingstick; Riley O'Neal
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- Franklin, North Carolina, USA
- Dedication
- For Lance Wubbels, who has the patience of Job
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- Mandie and Celia rushed into their room at the Misses Heathwood's School for Girls in Asheville, North Carolina, threw their books on a chair, and danced around the room.
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