The Smuggler's Treasure

This is the first book in the History Mysteries series and takes place in 1814 during our second war with England. An eleven-year-old girl named Elisabet is now alone since her father was taken captive by the British and she goes to live with some relatives.

She was used to a rather good life but, as a result of what we later learn was a crooked lawyer, all of her father's money, land and property is taken and she is sent almost penniless to New Orleans where she ends up having to work in a bakery This is a major cultural adjustment for her, to say the least.

While there she finds out about a map that could bring her enough money to pay a ransom for her father, but there's also an evil man out to get the map at any cost. In addition, there's a very famous pirate featured in the story that played a major role in the U.S. victory over England in the war of 1812.

As with the books in the American Girl's regular series, these also end with a historical section of information relating to the lives people led during the time and various events that happened. It's a quite good first book in the series.

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