Sugar Creek Gang

Who wrote that threatening letter? Who beat up Bill Collins? Who stole his suitcase and his letter? "At last," thought they, "we have found the culprit!" They held John Till on the ground, kicking and squirming. Then suddenly, Old Man Paddler came on the scene and they began their search all over with entirely new clues.

Shenanigans at Sugar Creek By Paul Hutchens One tough guy in the Sugar Creek territory was enough to keep us all on the lookout all the time for different kinds of trouble. We'd certainly had plenty with Big Bob Till, who, as you maybe know, was the big brother of Little Tom Till, our newest gang member.

Excerpt: "I guess I never did get tired thinking about all the interesting and exciting things which had happened to the Sugar Creek Gang when we'd gone camping far up in the North. One of the happiest memories was of the time when Poetry, who is the barrel-shaped member of our gang, and I were lost out in the forest, and while we were trying to get unlost we met a very cute little brown-faced Indian boy whose name was Snow-in-the-face, and his big Indian brother whose name was Eagle Eye."

Excerpt: "I was sitting right that minute in a big white rowboat that was docked at the end of the pier which ran far out into the water of the lake. From where I was sitting, in the stern of the boat, I could see the two brown tents where the rest of the Sugar Creek Gang was supposed to be taking a short afternoon nap-which was one of the rules about camp life none of us liked very well, but which was good for us on account of we always had more pep for the rest of the day and didn't get too tired before night."

Excerpt: "I tell you, when you just know there's going to be some exciting trouble in the next twelve minutes or less, you have to make your red head do some quick clear thinking, if you can. Not a one of the Sugar Creek Gang knew what was going to happen, but the very minute I heard that outboard motor roaring out on the lake, the sound sounding like it was coming straight toward the shore and the old icehouse we were all in, I said to us, "Quick, Gang! Let's get out of here and get this ransom money back to camp!" Little Jim's gunny sack had a lot of money in it right that minute, which we'd dug up out of the sawdust in that abandoned old icehouse. The gunny sack was nearly filled with stuffed fish,-the big and middle-sized northern and wall-eyed pike with thousands and thousands of dollars sewed up inside."

There's not only a green tent in this Sugar Creek Gang story, but some mysterious digging at night and what is almost another kidnapping. Here's another lively adventure book in this very popular series by Paul Hutchens, the happy friend of young America.

What do a stolen watermelon and a grocery store robbery have in common? You'll have to read The Watermelon Mystery to find out. First, Bill and Poetry discover somebody's watermelon in their favorite spring. Next, they spot a thief in the Collins' melon patch. And then there's that mysterious rowboat on Sugar Creek in the middle of the night. Tracking down a mystery requires courage and conviction on the part of the Sugar Creek Gang. Before the mystery is solved, the boys learn the importance of forgiving those who have sinned against us.