num_pages: 160
description: Eleven-year-old Bailey Fish is abruptly sent from Southwest Florida by her mother to live with her grandmother, Sugar, in Virginia. While Bailey adjusts to the new surroundings, her grandmother is investigating the source of pollution in nearby Contrary Creek, where there used to be gold mining.To complicate matters, a neighbor is out to get Sugar. He is the father of Justin Rudd, a bully on Bailey's school bus.Justin's father doesn't upset Sugar because she comes from a family of "wild women." She proudly tells Bailey stories about all of them, including the fashionable Mae, who was a spy during World War I. Bailey's relationship with the Rudds is further complicated when she is asked by her teacher to help Justin's little sister with reading.Inspired by Sugar's stories and what she finds in her grandmother's attic -- a secret box of letters and Mae's hat -- Bailey decides to become a wild woman herself. She heads into a dark woods to look for a former gold mine and gold nuggets for her school project. But what she discovers is not what she expects. . .
language: English
title: The Wild Women of Lake Anna
titlecomplete: The Wild Women of Lake Anna (Bailey Fish Adventures, #1)
ratings_count: 18
series: Bailey Fish Adventures
publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform