Mystery at Blackbeard's Cove
By: by Audrey Penn ; illustrations by Joshua Miller and Philip Howard
Contributors: Miller, Joshua, ill; Howard, Philip, 1944- ill
Publisher: Tanglewood Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Terre Haute, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780974930312
Description: As Halloween approaches Ocracoke Island, Billy, Daniel, Stefanie, and Mark are helped by the ghosts of Blackbeard and the eccentric Mrs. McNemmish when they are held captive by the local scoundrel Zeek, who is searching for a hidden treasure. This rollicking tale magically combines an unruly group of youngsters, Blackbeard's ghost, secret tunnels, skeletons, hidden treasure, a very mysterious inheritance, This book is a history lesson of the greatest kind--with the past and the present wonderfully and entertainingly intertwined. Annotation. This rollicking tale magically combines an unruly group of youngsters, Blackbeard's ghost, secret tunnels, skeletons, hidden treasure, a very mysterious inheritance, This book is a history lesson of the greatest kind--with the past and the present wonderfully and entertainingly intertwined.