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A new Mogi Franklin Mystery for middle-grade students takes the reader to the Caribbean island of St. John - a paradise of tropical jungles, ocean activities, and a sweltering climate. While visiting his sister as she works at an island resort, Mogi is drawn into searching for a buried treasure chest. In 1718, Blackbeard the pirate chased a Dutch merchant ship onto the island. The Dutch crew escapes, buries the captain's chest, travels back to Barbados to get another ship, and eventually set out to retrieve the chest. But Blackbeard is waiting and, this time, no one escapes. The chest is never found - waiting 300 years before a young man from Utah to be in hot pursuit. But before he can get to treasure hunting, mysterious things happen - Jennifer's computer and camera are stolen, a new friend is kidnapped, and there are no clues. Drawn into gripping dangers, Mogi and Jennifer must battle a vicious hurricane to find their friend and to reveal the crimes of the evil kingpin of the island. The Captain's Chest is a fast-moving, cleverly plotted mystery that demands that Mogi and Jennifer risk all to discover the truth.
The plague of homelessness runs through it like a pulsing vein. There is murder—and bodies galore. There is unhesitating genocide. There is an escape from certain death that will haunt you. And yet The King of Trash is a story of tenderness, of ethical struggle, and of deeply bonded humanity. In his latest novel—and his first to move beyond the highly successful Mogi Franklin middle-reader mysteries—author Don Willerton intertwines modern-day themes of transcendent importance through a unique and intriguing tale of mystery, adventure, and courage. Early readers have sometimes had nightmares, but yet The King of Trash is ultimately redeemed by its heart. It begins with a newspaper repor...
Mogi Franklin is a typical eighth-grader–except for the mysterious things that keep happening in his life. And the adventures they lead to as he and his sister, Jennifer, follow Mogi's unique problem-solving skills–along with dangerous clues from history and the world around them–to unearth a treasure of unexpected secrets. In Outlaw, vacationing Mogi and Jennifer are taking scuba lessons at Lake Powell, Utah, unaware that two hundred feet below them is the route used by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to escape pursuers after the biggest train robbery of their career. Meeting a history professor trying to answer questions about Butch and Sundance suddenly draws the two youngsters into involvement in an insane terrorist's incredible plan to blow up the dam holding back Lake Powell–and devastate most of the Southwest. It's not long before Mogi finds himself in the terrible situation of having to choose between preventing the dam's destruction and saving his own life.
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Mogi Franklin is a typical eighth-grader—except for the mysterious things that keep happening in his life. And the adventures they lead to as he and his sister follow Mogi’s unique problem-solving skills—along with dangerous clues from history and the land around them—to unearth a treasure of unexpected secrets. In Ghosts of the San Juan, the mysterious disappearance of four men in 1934 reveals clues to a modern plot to steal Navajo resources—and leads Mogi and Jennifer into a deadly trap. Escape seems impossible unless Mogi can find some way to lure the Ghosts of the San Juan to help.
Mogi Franklin is a typical eighth-grader–except for the mysterious things that keep happening in his life. And the adventures they lead to as he and his sister, Jennifer, follow Mogi's unique problem-solving skills–along with dangerous clues from history and the world around them–to unearth a treasure of unexpected secrets. In The Lady in White, Mogi is working as a cowboy over the summer vacation on one of the largest ranches in New Mexico when hundreds of cattle start mysteriously dying there. Trying to understand the cause, he finds himself embroiled in the life of a boy who was kidnapped by Comanche Indians in 1871. In this seventh book of the exciting Mogi Franklin Mysteries, Mogi comes face-to-face with the ghost of the boy's mother, and must face the reality of the past to save the ranch from the enemies of the present.
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To Elias Gunnarson, his dad, Teddy, was part of "the greatest generation," a man who fought valiantly in World War II, was honorably discharged, married his high school sweetheart, and lived happily ever after. Right? Wrong! The truth, he finds, lies shrouded in an intricately complex web baring only superficial resemblance to the terrible reality lived by those who battled from the sands of Omaha Beach to the horrors of Dachau. As letters, videos, stories, and memories unfold the true tale of Teddy's war, Elias learns that the lives of his mother, his father, and his father's brother, Jake, were not what they seemed, and that dying a hero does not absolve a person from the sins of his past.
To Mogi Franklin, it simply seemed like a better summer job than stocking supermarket shelves in Bluff, Utah. But the opportunity to help with his sister Jennifer's architectural assessment of the newly refurbished, once-grand-and-glorious hotel and restaurant in Las Vegas, New Mexico, turned out to be much more--the kind of brain-testing mystery he loved and excelled at, along with a heavy serving of adventure and danger. The mystery was more than seventy-five years old: the robbery of a local bank by two gunmen who'd walked out the door with thick stacks of hundred-dollar bills and then simply vanished. The link with the present-day hotel suddenly appeared in an unexpected find hidden in t...