title: The Mandie Collection, Volume 1: Mandie and the Secret Tunnel/Mandie and the Cherokee Legend/Mandie and the Ghost Bandits/Mandie and the Forbidden Attic/Mandie and the Trunk's Secret (Mandie 1-5)
author:  Lois Gladys Leppard 
description: Lois Gladys Leppard (1924-2008) worked in Federal Intelligence for thirteen years in various countries around the world before she settled in South Carolina. The stories of her own mother's childhood as an orphan in western North Carolina are the basis for many of the incidents incorporated in this series.
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  The Mandie Collection: Volume One  
  
  
  Copyright © 1983, 1984, 1985, 2007  
  
  
  Lois Gladys Leppard
  
  
  
  
  
  Previously published in five separate volumes:
  
  
  
  
  
  Mandie and the Secret Tunnel © 1983  
  
  
  Mandie and the Cherokee Legend © 1983  
  
  
  Mandie and the Ghost Bandits © 1984  
  
  
  Mandie and the Forbidden Attic © 1985  
  
  
  Mandie and the Trunk’s Secret © 1985
  
  
  
  
  
  MANDIE® and SNOWBALL® are registered trademarks of Lois Gladys Leppard
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover illustration by Chris Wold Dyrud
  
  
  
  
  
  Ebook edition created 2012
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,
  or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical,
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  the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Bethany House Publishers  
  
  
  11400 Hampshire Avenue South  
  
  
  Bloomington, Minnesot