Claire of the Wild Rose

by Jennifer Armstrong and Ana Huang

Book Overview

Struggling with financial difficulties due to the Prohibition and her brother's wish to make the inn into a speakeasy, Claire MacKenzie is drawn into a mystery regarding the murder of the town drunk... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553299115
• ISBN13: 9780553299113
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Bantam Books for Young Readers
• Length: 10 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Must-read book

I thought this was an excellent book. It combined romance, mystery, and humor to keep me interested page after page. Plus, I learned a few things about Prohibition and the Jazz Age. I would definately recommend this book, along with the others in the 'Wild Rose Inn' series.

Great book!

Ever since her father died ten years ago, during World War 1, 17 year old Claire MacKenzie has managed the MacKenzie's Wild Rose Inn, which has been in the family since they first came to America from Scotland in 1685. Her younger brother's not much help - lately, he's been getting drunk all the time - and her mother seems frail and intimidated. When the town drunk, the father of Claire's best friend, Kitty, is found dead on his boat, it's clearly a murder. With the help of Hank, a young newspaper reporter she's in love with, Claire sets out to find the dangerous truth about his death - and learns some dangerous truths about smuggling and bootlegging in her own town.