Susan K. Marlow
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Susan K. Marlow is a freelance editor, teacher, and home-school mom. In addition to writing her Circle C Adventures series for ’tweens, she speaks at Young Authors conferences and teaches writing workshops for kids. She and her family make their home in Washington state.
When a flood damages the schoolhouse, Andi is ecstatic—until her family sends her to a stuffy San Francisco school for young ladies. Once there, the plight of a small, Chinese slave girl captures her heart, sending Andi and her new friends into the dark alleys of Chinatown , where danger greater than she’s ever known waits to swallow them up.
Strange things are happening on the Circle C. Who is the lifeless man Andi and her friends find lying in the creek? Who is the travel-weary young woman with three unruly children who suddenly shows up at the ranch? Why has Andi never been told the secret her family has carefully kept hidden? Angry and hurt at being left out, Andi saddles Taffy and sets out to find some answers—answers that turn her world upside down.
Andi nearly tramples her new teacher in a reckless, impromptu horse race down the main street of Fresno, California—not a good way to begin the fall 1880 school term. Her troubles multiply when she must decide if she should deliberately walk into a dangerous situation to rescue the teacher’s mean-spirited, trouble-making daughter.