Albany Junior High School Library

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Nicki Greenberg
272 pages
Summary: Set in the late 1920s, the novel follows Pepper Stark, thirteen-year-old daughter of an aloof ship captain who barely notices his daughter much less provides the parental warmth she desperately craves. During her first time aboard her father's ocean-liner, Pepper witnesses a diamond theft and, along with her newfound ship friends, is determined to solve the mystery to prove herself to her dad