Riddle of the Prairie Bride

This was such a staple of my childhood. Still holds up, tbh.......more

When a mail order bride answers her father's ad in 1878 Kansas, the woman seems to be from the South, which isn't real good in freed Kansas. The wife is possibly not all she seems, and his daughter investigates. A real life sort of mystery. More relevant than ever with all the blended families these......more

I really enjoyed so much of this story! The sweet, charming, simple way that things moved through most of the book; the darling and unexpected relationships between the characters; the way that Ida Kate welcomed her new hopeful-mother-to-be and her baby with open arms. I loved that her later suspici......more

Summary: "Riddle of the Prairie Bride” is a mystery novel set in post-Civil War Kansas (which was then still considered the frontier), and follows the happening of a young girl named Ida Kate Deming. Her widowed father sends an advertisement out east seeking a new bride, to which a woman named Carol......more

I sought this out because I liked another youth title by Reiss: Paint by Magic. This is an American Girl book--historical fiction for girls aged 10 and up. This one is part of a series called History Mysteries. Written competently, the book illustrates life in Kansas post Civil War, and the mail ord......more