AGHM #2 and #3

Hoofbeats of Danger I quite liked. It takes place in Nebraska Territory in 1860 at a Pony Express station. Annie, another plucky 11-year-old, has a favorite express horse and when she begins acting crazily, it's up to Annie to solve the mystery with the help of her half-Shoshone healer friend and Bill Cody himself in his younger years.

This one's got a lot of action and the mystery keeps plugging along at a good pace.

The only thing that took me out of the story a bit is that the horse is named Magpie, which is of course Kaya's hated nickname. There was a blonde Caroline in Smuggler's Treasure set during Historical Caroline's War of 1812 so that was a bit distracting, too.

Unfortunately, this was author Holly Hughes' only contribution to the series.

Set during WWII in ruralish North Carolina, the Night Flyers is about 12-year-old Pam, who lives with her mother on a small farm while her father is off being a soldier. Pam struggles in school and with the abuse of her mother's boss's bratty son. Who never gets his. Not really. The douche. A strange man with a maybe-German accent comes asking about her precious pigeons, which are prize winners she's raised with her father. He wants them because they're night flyers and will pay her hundreds for even one breeding pair. But when the pigeons start to go missing and Pam's incredibly stupid ass mother tries to make her abandon the half-wolf dog she's trained, Pam gets into a much bigger adventure than she planned, although the culprit ends up being much closer to home.

At least she gets to keep her well-trained guard dog! He was the best part of this book.

This one was by Elizabeth McDavid Jones, who wrote 3 Felicity mysteries, 1 for Kit, and 4 others in this series.