Voices at Whisper Bend

by Katherine Ayres

Published 1 September 1999
In their Pennsylvania town in 1942 twelve-year-old Charlotte and her classmates collect scrap metal for the war effort only to have it disappear from the school basement.

Under Copp's Hill

by Katherine Ayres

Published 1 September 2000
In 1908, eleven-year-old Innie joins the library club at a settlement house that serves immigrant families of Boston's North End, but when items and money disappear from the settlement house, Innie's past as a troublemaker puts her under suspicion.