Patricia Hass

eBook, ePUB

The Pocahontas Feather (eBook, ePUB)

A Shockoe Slip Gang Mystery

Beschreibung

Once again, the Shockoe Slip Gang find themselves caught up in a thrilling and scary new mystery when their friend Jason, now living in Williamsburg, asks for their help. He's discovered that a Native American headband, believed to have been worn by Pocahontas herself, has been stolen from the historical museum in Jamestown. Even more mysterious, Jason suspects that his friend Amy, a curator at the museum and a descendant of Pocahontas, is the person who took the priceless treasure.

But now it has gone missing even from Amy, and Sally, Andrew and Henry must search frantically through the Native American artifacts in Jamestown to a Williamsburg bookstore and a mysterious antique shop in Richmond.

As they face vanishing clues and dangerous characters, it takes all their ingenuity, bravery and determination to discover an unscrupulous antique dealer's plot to fly the headband out of the country, where it would be lost forever from its tribal home. Can the Shockoe Slip Gang rescue the headband in time to save the Powhatan tribe's most precious symbol? In a hair-raising climax full of peril the Gang and their pal Jason find out how far they must go to right a terrible wrong.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 8.41MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Patricia Hass is the author of four middle grade books for 8-12 year-olds: KATA, SON OF RED FANG, WINDSONG SUMMER, THE SHOCKOE SLIP GANG: A MYSTERY, and SWAMPFIRE: A SHOCKOE SLIP GANG MYSTERY. She has worked as well in television and film, writing the pilot script for the PBS series Ranger Rick, also the script for "The Magic Garbage Can," an environmental film for the Boy Scouts of America made by Explorer Scouts in New York City.. In addition, she wrote the National Geographic book, HOW THINGS ARE MADE, and wrote the educational film series "Life Cycles" for schools and libraries.She also wrote and produced the 30 minute film, "Read Your Way Up," for the District of Columbia's Public Library System reading campaign, starring Redskins MVP running back Larry Brown and members of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team, which was picked up by the District's public school system and used in Middle School reading classes.Patricia feels that middle grade is the age when children can understand the value of responsibility and commitment, and of relying on their own brains, courage, and initiative; in other words, learning to think for themselves and act responsibly on that knowledge.She lives in Princeton, NJ where she speaks frequently at middle school and library reading events for children, as well as in many other parts of the country.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Windsong Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Altersempfehlung: ab 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798218192006
• Artikelnr.: 67826854