Children's Books
The Secret of the Bradford House
What is that light in the attic window of the spooky old Bradford House? Could it be a ghost? Hidden stairways and secrets from World War I draw Steve and Kendra into investigating the mysteries of their small town in Kentucky's Land Between the Lakes.
The Secret of the Lonely grave
Eleven-year-old Steve Patterson and his friend Kendra Jordan walk past a cemetery on their way to school each day. Their curiosity is aroused when they notice flowers left on an old grave off in one corner of the cemetery, what they call the Lonely Grave. No one has ever left flowers there before. Who could have done it? Why? As they look for answers to these questions they discover some things about the history of their small Kentucky town that take them back to the Civil War and the Underground Railroad. But not everyone is pleased that they've solved their town's oldest mystery.
The book won the Evelyn Thurman Young Readers' Book Award, given by the Western Kentucky University Libraries, in 2008. 3Rs Reading Den called it a "strong, thought-provoking read . . . an entertaining story that tackles controversial, difficult and painful topics in meaningful, age-appropriate ways."
what you wish for
Sandy Walker and T. J. McKenzie become pen pals through a school assignment. When they meet face-to-face, they discover that neither of them is quite what the other expected. As their friendship grows they confront local bully Martin Fuller and try to unravel a 100-year-old mystery about something supposedly buried on the Walker farm.