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Children's Fiction Mysteries & Detective Stories

Midnight Marauders

by (author) Geraldine Tuck

Publisher
Four East Publishing
Initial publish date
Oct 2015
Category
Mysteries & Detective Stories
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897462393
    Publish Date
    Oct 2015
    List Price
    $9.95

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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 8 to 12
  • Grade: 3 to 7

Description

This 1931 adventure highlights rum runners along Nova Scotia's south shore. When eleven-year-old Dan Veinottboards the Martha Rae, he discovers that the town peddler, Corker, is smuggling rum. But he can't tell his father because he owes Corker his life. Join Dan and his friend Becky as they try to foil Percy Brown's illegal business. For things to change on the baseball lot, they must also face the town bully. First published in1991, Midnight Marauders was selected as an Our Choice book by the Canadian Children's Book Centre.

About the author

Geraldine Tuck was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia. After years of travelling across Canada with her parents, the family settled on Nova Scotia's South Shore. Geraldine raised her family in Lunenburg County. She is busy completing her Marauder Mystery Series. She particularly enjoys reading about the 1930s, an ideal background for Dan and Becky to stumble into and solve one mystery after the other.

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