Carol Ryrie Brink Books in Order

Jacques inherits two rusty keys and memories of his family’s missing barge. Seeking his future on the Seine, he finds work, encounters traveling performers, and searches for the vessel that could restore his fortunes.

Eleven-year-old Caddie prefers adventures with her brothers to the behavior her mother expects of a young lady. Life in 1864 Wisconsin brings family disagreements, frontier dangers, and encounters that test her courage and judgment.

Fourteen-year-old Alice Moreau resents hearing her family’s six daughters called six misfortunes. Determined to establish her own identity, she befriends a difficult elderly American woman and becomes involved in adventures during a journey through southern France.

When a storm leaves sisters Mary and Jean stranded on a deserted island, four babies become their unexpected responsibility. The girls must improvise shelter and daily routines while keeping their tiny companions safe and fed.

A ten-year-old girl’s quiet small-town life changes when a new minister arrives with two adventurous sons. In the early twentieth century, the children’s escapades and well-meant attempts to help their neighbors create excitement throughout town.

Caddie and her five siblings return for more adventures on their Wisconsin frontier farm. Washing sheep, helping build a neighbor’s house, and adopting baby animals give the Woodlawn children plenty of opportunities for mischief and discovery.

In the Scotland of Sir Walter Scott’s time, beggar boy Rob McFarland earns money by whistling and drumming. An unexpected appointment as guardian to two wealthy children draws him into a plot against his new charges.

Three doctors pursue professional success and personal ambitions in the Idaho town of Opportunity during the 1890s. Their intersecting lives reveal the rivalries, aspirations, and hardships shaping a frontier community as it grows and changes.

This biography follows the Hutchinson family, whose nineteenth-century singing became intertwined with American reform movements. Drawing on family records, Brink explores their concert careers and connections to temperance, abolition, and the social causes of their era.

Written for young readers, this biography introduces Narcissa Whitman through her early life and her work as a missionary in Oregon. Illustrations and a chronology accompany the account of her place in western American history.

Actress Naomi Murdoch returns to a small Minnesota town in 1910, ten years after leaving her husband and three children. Her arrival stirs conflicting loyalties, old resentments, and hopes within the family she abandoned.

Susan, George, and Dumpling Ridgeway live in a college town with a professor father and mystery-writer mother. When their friend Tommy’s poor grades threaten his place on the football team, the children devise plans to help.

Overworked eleven-year-old Willie meets Professor Petit and his five performing dogs, each with a special talent. When a rival circus owner brings a tiger to town, Willie must help the professor and one endangered canine companion.

The Ridgeway children accompany their professor father to southern France during his sabbatical. Hotel life, a rumored princess, French lessons, and attempts to celebrate American holidays bring Susan, George, and Dumpling a succession of unfamiliar adventures.

In 1908 Idaho, Forest Service investigator Bundy Jones befriends homesteaders while checking whether timber claims are being sold to lumber companies. His concealed assignment strains those friendships as a forest fire threatens the surrounding white-pine country.

Kirby and Bitsy’s family inherits a bright pink Florida motel filled with unusual guests. A magician, an artist, mysterious messages, and the possibility of a hidden fortune turn their new home into a setting for adventure.

Brink recalls a stay with her husband and young son at a boardinghouse near Marseille in the 1920s. Their encounters include an American widow whose long life in France has left her yearning for home.

Scottish brothers Angus, Willie, and Douglas McBain seek new lives in the Pacific Northwest. Their differing attitudes toward money, love, and responsibility shape their fortunes amid the growing communities of Idaho and eastern Washington.

Andy Buckram likes turning discarded tin cans into useful inventions, from cowbells to doorstops. News of another boy’s homemade robots inspires him to attempt a more ambitious project: building a collection of tin men himself.

Friends Chrys and Cordy grow up in early twentieth-century Idaho, sharing school days, parties, and imaginative adventures. Their dolls inspire a romantic novel that the two girls write together, adding their story chapter by chapter.

During the Depression, Minty Sparkes, her sister, and their widowed father are stranded in northern Wisconsin when their car breaks down. An empty summer cottage becomes a winter refuge, bringing unexpected visitors and questions about their responsibilities.

Irma Baumlein tells her classmates that she owns the world’s biggest doll. When they want to see it, she invents more stories to protect her claim, trapping herself in an increasingly complicated tangle of lies.

Nearly fifteen, Louly enjoys new independence while her parents visit Michigan in 1908. At home in Idaho, friendships, a campout, an elocution contest, and romantic interest make the summer a season of experiments and discoveries.

At fifteen, Brink spends a summer with three school friends on her aunt’s remote Idaho homestead. Recollections and letters preserve their experiences in the Clearwater country, which later provided material for her novel Strangers in the Forest.

In this memoir, Brink remembers people whose lives touched her own and reflects on the experiences connecting generations. Family history and personal recollections trace the human relationships through which memories and influences pass from one person to another.

The smell of Goody O’Grumpity’s spice cake draws neighborhood children to her kitchen, where they eagerly wait for a taste. Brink’s poem appears with Ashley Wolff’s colonial-era illustrations and a recipe inviting readers to bake along.