When two teenage sisters move to the country for the summer, they don’t expect to be saving animals or solving mysteries. As soon as Amanda & Emily Carson arrive at The Birches, their summer community during a driving rain storm, they are pulled into a rescue for a pug swept away by a raging stream.
Sixteen-year-old Amanda reconnects with her old friends while her younger sister, Emily makes a new friend, Ashley. Their friendship heads south when Ashley accuses Amanda of theft!
Tension runs high, splitting the sisters. But when Gus, Ashley’s dog, disappears, Amanda and Emily join forces to find him, risking their own safety. A desperate escape finds the girls locked in a closet in a haunted house. A frantic search by the community turns up nothing until David, the girls’ friend, takes their alert dog, Muffin, out to find them.
Take this fun adventurous journey through friendship, mystery and sisterly devotion. Best for young readers ages seven and up.
Genre: JUVENILE FICTION / GeneralThis is the first in a series of children's mystery and adventure books starring two sisters who get along pretty well when they're not fighting.
“Flood at Five Mile Creek!” hollered sixteen-year-old David Williams.
Amanda and Emily Carson jumped out of their father’s car just as it came to a stop. They raced through their summer community, following David into the woods. The girls almost flew over the path, green tree suckers whipped at their bare legs while rain poured down their hair and into their eyes. But they didn’t stop. David led the way through the soggy wood, past the trail to the creek. The creek was swollen with raging water that gushed over rocks, rising higher and loosening the soil on the creek banks.
On the other side of the stream frozen stock still stood seven-year-old Samantha and her little pug dog, Freddie. Emily leaped over a narrow part of the creek to join Samantha, wrapping a protective arm around the younger girl’s shoulders and guiding her away from the bank of the creek.
Amanda stopped short almost tripping over Muffin, her rag-tag mixed breed dog. Muffin barked. Freddie saw Muffin and wiggled closer and closer to the edge of the creek straining against his leash and wagging his tail, trying to get Muffin’s attention. His wide mouth parted in a pug-like grin as he panted. Muffin barked a caution to him, but he couldn’t hear her over the roar of the stream.
As Freddie stepped on the edge of the creek bank, the ground gave way. His weight snapped the leash from Samantha’s small hand and Freddie fell into the rushing water. Samantha screamed.
Amanda yelled to her sister,
“Grab Samantha.”
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Translated by Diana Venturelli
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