blue ridge mountains

"Twelve-year-old Ella loves visiting her grandparents in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina every summer, and this year her grandfather announces they are going catfish noodling--but Ella is unsure about catching a fish with her bare hands"--Provided by publisher.

"Sam, Derek and Caitlin have encountered many mysteries together, but when they visit Maymont, Richmond's historic estate, danger is lurking at every turn. A chance meeting with a mysterious stranger leads to a frantic chase and a desperate message to save Maymont's bald eagles. When Sam receives an eerie warning in the middle of the night, Derek and Caitlin devise a plan that leads them high into the BlueRidge Mountains. To save the eagles, the kids must find a secret abandoned palace, survive the wilds of the Appalachian Trail and avoid capture by criminals, all before midnight."--Back cover.

"Sixteen-year-old Sam McKenna discovers that becoming one of the first girls to attend the revered Denmark Military Academy means living with a target on her back."--Provided by publisher.

During a visit to the home of her dying grandmother in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Lee happens on a famous lost treasure which may prove unlucky for herself as well as for others.

Jane Arnold, the seventy-something Master of the prestigious Jefferson Hunt Club, sets a trap to catch a killer when the skeleton of Nola Bancroft--missing for over twenty years--comes to light still wearing her distinctive sapphire ring.

During the Depression, eleven-year-old Carrie makes her annual summer visit to her relatives in the Blue Ridge Mountains and watches her determined grandfather fight against the government's attempt to take his farm land for a new national park.

After the death of their parents, Lisette and her brother Riley go to live with their grandparents in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia where they experience a series of adventures that bring new dimensions to their lives.