Great Lakes Adventure in History & Mystery
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Calling the Griffin
by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos
Part 1 of the Great Lakes Adventure in History & Mystery series
Allie and Shoo Spywell is just regular kids-well, sort of. It's just that their dad is an archaeologist, and their mother is a mystery writer. The Spywell kids always seem to get a few more history lessons than they would like. When Allie and Shoo arrive in St. Joseph, Michigan, they expect to have a relaxing vacation on the beach. However, something seems strange about the cottage. Is it haunted by a fisherman drowned in a storm many years ago? And is that a real sailing ship they see in the mist-or is it the legendary ghost ship the Griffin? Join Allie and Shoo in their thrilling adventure as they explore the history and legends of the French explorer LaSalle and his ghost ship, the Griffin, loaded with details of Great Lakes history.
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Madame Cadillac's Ghost
by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos
Part 2 of the Great Lakes Adventure in History & Mystery series
Allie and Shoo Spywell is just regular kids-well, sort of. It's just that their dad is an archaeologist, and their mother is a mystery writer. The Spywell kids always seem to get a few more history lessons than they would like. While left on their own to explore the Detroit Historical Museum, Allie and Shoo soon meet strange characters. Shoo meets a boy in red tennis shoes who becomes even more mysterious and stranger as the afternoon wears on. Allie, meanwhile, is taken by the woeful stories of a weeping woman who is dressed in an ancient French gown and claims to be the wife of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, Detroit's founder. Allie learns the true accounts and mysterious happenings of old Detroit as she tries to warn Shoo that his new friend is not a friend at all, but holds the secrets of Madame Cadillac and her husband. Shoo is the only one to save them but will he be able to rescue them before they are permanently trapped in Detroit's past? The boy in the red shoes is actually based on the "Red Devil" that is found throughout the writings of Cadillac, and not an imaginary character created by Panagopoulos.
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Runes of Isle Royale
by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos
Part 3 of the Great Lakes Adventure in History & Mystery series
What's it like to have a father who is an archaeologist and a mother who is a mystery writer? For Allie and Shoo Spywell it means fun and mysterious family vacations throughout the Great Lakes that entangle them in ghostly adventures. Like this trip to Isle Royale with their father who plans to do some fieldwork in an ancient copper mine. All Allie and Shoo want to do is to have fun camping and exploring the wilderness island. But fun turns into a scare of a lifetime when they meet a frightening island visitor. Bloodaxe, a Viking ghost called back through time by the magical beam from the island lighthouse, he is searching for his stolen runestones - stones that tell the tale of Viking exploration of the Great Lakes over 1,000 years ago. What's more, he insists that Allie and Shoo know where his lost stones can be found. Both funny and frightening, you won't want to miss this Isle Royale thriller or any of the Spywell's "mysterious" adventures by Panagopoulos.
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