Claire of the Wild Rose Inn

Wild Rose Inn #5

by Jennifer Armstrong

Struggling with financial difficulties due to the Prohibition and her brother's wish to make the inn into a speakeasy, Claire MacKenzie is drawn into a mystery regarding the murder of the town drunk and fears her brother may be involved.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Romance, Historical, Fiction

175 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 1, 1994

About the author

Jennifer Armstrong learned to read and write in Switzerland, in a small school for English speaking children on the shores of Lake Zurich. The school library had no librarian and no catalog – just shelves of interesting books. She selected books on her own, read what she could, and made up the rest. It was perfect. As a result, she made her career choice – to become an author – in first grade. When she and her family returned to the U.S. she discovered that not all children wrote stories and read books, and that not all teachers thought reading real books was important. Nevertheless, she was undaunted. Within a year of leaving college she was a free-lance ghost writer for a popular juvenile book series, and before long published her first trade novel, Steal Away, which won her a Golden Kite Honor for fiction.

More than fifty additional novels and picture books followed, and before long she also tried her hand at nonfiction, winning an Orbis Pictus Award and a Horn Book Honor for her first nonfiction book, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World. In late 2003 she will travel to the South Pole with the National Science Foundation to do research for a book on ice.

Reviews

[Izzy]

I read this book when I was in middle school. Finding this now in Goodreads has brought back a lot of memories. I remember sitting in my school's library going through this book as fast as possible to reach the end. At that time, it felt like a very good suspense novel set back in the past when alcohol was banned. Gives you a bit of history and suspense all in one. Definitely a goodread for kids! Loved it!

[Choimiji]

I’m on page 34 of Claire of the wild rose.

Q. If you could ask any character a question, what would you ask? If you could ask the author a question, what might that be? Explain why you chose these questions.

To. Tink Trelawney who is Kitty’s father

My question is “Who killed you? Why? ” and If I could ask the author a question, I would ask “IS Tink’s death related to Claire’s father’s death? ”
The reason is that there are already two deaths; even I have not read many pages. In addition, as the main characters’s conversation, it supposed to develop stories about the murder accident related to her father and Tink.