TITLE: The Stolen Sapphire
AUTHOR: Sarah Masters Buckey
COPYRIGHT: 2006
ORIGINAL PUBLISHER: American Girl Publishing, Inc.
NUMBER OF PAGES: 171
PLOTLINE: Eleven-year-old Samantha Parkington and her sister Nellie are sailing to Europe on the R.M.S. Queen Caroline. Samantha soon finds out that an extremely valuable sapphire is being taken to Europe by the professor who located it in South America.
One night shortly after Samantha and Nellie board the ship, the sapphire goes missing. Anyone could have taken it---but who would have done such a terrible thing?
The two girls have their own ideas about who stole the sapphire, but they need proof. And how do they get proof when they’re arriving in Europe soon and there are no clues available?
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“Jack looked at her skepticaly. ‘I considered that theory,’ he admitted. ‘I could just see the headlines: ‘MONKEY STEALS BLUE STAR SAPPHIRE!’ ’ He sighed. ‘It would’ve been a great story.’
‘But it’s possible!’ protested Samantha.
‘In a dime-store novel, maybe,’ allowed Jack.” - The Stolen Sapphire
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