Alice Rose and Sam
Twelve-year-old Alice Rose hates her home in Virginia City, Nevada. Only Sam Clemens, the new reporter at her father's paper, keeps things interesting. Like Alice Rose, Sam has a colorful way with words and a habit of saying just what he thinks, especially when he's using his pen name-Mark Twain. When a miner is murdered, Sam is the only one willing to help Alice Rose investigate. She thinks the killing has something to do with the Society of Seven, a vigilante group of religious fanatics. Sam wonders if the plot isn't even bigger than that: a plan by the Confederacy to steal silver to fund their Civil War efforts. Mixing historical figures with top-notch fictional adventure, award-winning author Kathryn Lasky creates a thrilling mystery set on the wild American frontier. Christina Moore perfectly voices all of Alice's sharp wit and keen perception.
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Alice Rose and Sam
Twelve-year-old Alice Rose hates her home in Virginia City, Nevada. Only Sam Clemens, the new reporter at her father's paper, keeps things interesting. Like Alice Rose, Sam has a colorful way with words and a habit of saying just what he thinks, especially when he's using his pen name-Mark Twain. When a miner is murdered, Sam is the only one willing to help Alice Rose investigate. She thinks the killing has something to do with the Society of Seven, a vigilante group of religious fanatics. Sam wonders if the plot isn't even bigger than that: a plan by the Confederacy to steal silver to fund their Civil War efforts. Mixing historical figures with top-notch fictional adventure, award-winning author Kathryn Lasky creates a thrilling mystery set on the wild American frontier. Christina Moore perfectly voices all of Alice's sharp wit and keen perception.
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Alice Rose and Sam

Alice Rose and Sam

by Kathryn Lasky

Narrated by Christina Moore

Unabridged — 4 hours, 46 minutes

Alice Rose and Sam

Alice Rose and Sam

by Kathryn Lasky

Narrated by Christina Moore

Unabridged — 4 hours, 46 minutes

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Twelve-year-old Alice Rose hates her home in Virginia City, Nevada. Only Sam Clemens, the new reporter at her father's paper, keeps things interesting. Like Alice Rose, Sam has a colorful way with words and a habit of saying just what he thinks, especially when he's using his pen name-Mark Twain. When a miner is murdered, Sam is the only one willing to help Alice Rose investigate. She thinks the killing has something to do with the Society of Seven, a vigilante group of religious fanatics. Sam wonders if the plot isn't even bigger than that: a plan by the Confederacy to steal silver to fund their Civil War efforts. Mixing historical figures with top-notch fictional adventure, award-winning author Kathryn Lasky creates a thrilling mystery set on the wild American frontier. Christina Moore perfectly voices all of Alice's sharp wit and keen perception.

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A newspaperman's daughter and novice reporter Sam Clemens uncover a plot to seize the mighty Comstock Lode for the Confederacy in this open-throttled page-turner from Lasky (True North, 1996, etc.). After her mother dies in childbirth, Alice Rose's loneliness is relieved by her father's new employee, Sam, who has startling ideas about God and the Bible, and an imagination as unfettered as his red hair. In exchange for Sam's treating her as a thinking adult rather than a child, she feeds him story ideas and local anecdotesþthen graduates to collaborator when she witnesses a murder tied to an anonymous vigilante group known as the "Society of Seven." In fact, the Society is out to take over the silver mines for the Southern cause, and Alice Rose discovers that she's in danger not only for seeing the murder, but for being part owner of a key claim. Lasky surrounds Alice Rose with a wild array of barflies, "hurdy-gurdy girls," nouveau millionaires, immigrant Chinese (one, Hop Sing, hails from Carson City), crooked lawyers, and hard-living reporters; she also gives her a salty, vivid way with wordsþ"Mr. Clemens this country is about as pretty as a singed cat more like the Devil's spittoon than the Garden of Eden"þand propels her into plenty of tense situations. Fans of Karen Cushman's The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (1996) and Kathleen Karr's Oh, Those Harper Girls! (1992) have a plucky new heroine to admire. (Fiction. 11-13)

JUN/JUL 01 - AudioFile

Twelve-year-old Alice Rose Tucker hates living in rough and uncivilized Nevada--until she meets a man named Sam Clemens. Young Clemens, later famous as "Mark Twain," is enlisted to help Alice solve an unusual Civil War murder mystery. Experienced narrator Christina Moore brings an authentic voice to the indomitable Alice and wry humor to her portrayal of the early years of one of the icons of American literature. E.V. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID: 2940170994076
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date: 09/11/2009
Edition description: Unabridged
Age Range: 8 - 11 Years
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