Mollie Peer
Subtitle: Or, The Underground Adventure of the Moosepath League
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: July 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780670886333
Subjects: Modern fiction; Popular American Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - Historical; Moosepath League (Imaginary organization); Portland (Maine); Historical; Fiction / General; General; Historical fiction; Portland (Me.)
First sentence: THE BLOCKHOUSE AT FORT EDGECOMB, on Davis Island, had presided over another summer of picnickers and squealing children.
Description: During the autumn of 1896 in Portland, Maine, feisty society columnist Mollie Peer believes that a ragamuffin little boy - known only as Bird - is merely the subject of a story that will propel her to the level of a true reporter. Instead, the chain of events she sets in motion, and the heroic and magnanimous people she comes to know (Bird included) lead her to understand the breadth of her own compassion and valor as she and her cohorts follow the little boy into the dark world of the nightrunners.

Van Reid enthralls us with a story filled with wonderment, romance, and old-fashioned adventure, from the catacomb-like underground of the Portland waterfront to a perilous night pursuit on the October coast.