title: The Rise of The Fourteen
author: Catherine G. Carter
description: Catherine Carter is a high school student who has written her first novel after years of daydreaming. She likes tea, listening to music, and watching TV shows. Catherine is also a classical pianist and plays with her school orchestra. She has traveled to dozens of countries around the world, but feels most at home with a good book. Catherine currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where you can probably find her at a coffee shop, working on her second novel.
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  # Harriet and the Piper
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Kathleen Norris
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHAPTER I
  
  
  CHAPTER II
  
  
  CHAPTER III
  
  
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
  CHAPTER V
  
  
  CHAPTER VI
  
  
  CHAPTER VII
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII
  
  
  CHAPTER IX
  
  
  CHAPTER X
  
  
  CHAPTER XI
  
  
  CHAPTER XII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV
  
  
  CHAPTER XV
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX
  
  
  CHAPTER XX
  
  
  CHAPTER XXI
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
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  DANIEL WEBB NYE
  
  
  DEAR MAKER OF BOOKS AND FRIENDS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  Richard Carter had called the place "Crownlands," not to please
  
  
  himself, or even his wife. But it was to his mother's newly born
  
  
  family pride that the idea of being the Carters of Crownlands made
  
  
  its appeal. The estate, when he bought it, had belonged to a Carter,
  
  
  and the tradition was that two hundred years before it had been a
  
  
  grant of the first 