Alice B. Emerson - Ruth Fielding Of The Red Mill (18/25)The Spelling Bee

RUTH FIELDING OF THE RED MILL..... Brave, adventurous and loyal, recently-orphaned Ruth Fielding is sent to live with her estranged Uncle Jabez at the Red Mill in Cheslow, New York. A new town means making new friends, and the teenage Ruth quickly befriends the children of a wealthy merchant. But as the relationship between her and her uncle becomes strained and she attempts to become friends with a very disagreeable girl, will Ruth's cheery disposition be enough to get her through? AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY..... Alice B. Emerson is a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Betty Gordon and Ruth Fielding series of children's novels. The writers taking up the pen of Alice B. Emerson are not all known. However, books one to nineteen of the Ruth Fielding series were written by W. Bert Foster; books twenty to twenty two were written by Elizabeth M. Duffield Ward, and books twenty three to thirty were written by Mildred Benson. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------