Rather than face the consequences of his attempted shoplifting, twelve-year-old Joel Osler leaves his mothers home in Toronto to go live with his dad and stepmother in Turtle Narrows. He hopes to make a fresh start in the little lakeside town. On the way, he meets a man who shows him the map with its three clues. Joel finds an unlikely ally in the fiercely independent Paige Duggan, a Grade Seven classmate at the school he now attends. Paige lives with her guardian and a growing number of rescued animals in a tiny cottage they call the Mousehole. In an effort to avoid his stepmother and hoping for a dog-walking job like Paiges, Joel volunteers to work at the local animal shelter. Joels past mistakes come back to haunt him when a silver compass disappears from the teachers desk. Is he destined to be the number one suspect every time something goes missing? Joel shows Paige the drawings he remembers from the map, and the two team up to match wits against the man, hoping to discover the meaning of the three clues before he does.
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Peggy Dymond Leavey's previous books include Sky Lake Summer, The Deep End Gang, and The Path Through the Trees, all of which were nominated for the Silver Birch Award. Recently, she published Growing Up Ivy and Mary Pickford. Peggy lives in Trenton, Ontario.
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A superbly crafted mystery
Jun 10 2007
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Joel Osler is 12 years old and decides to leave his mother's home in Toronto to live with his father and stepmother in Turtle Narrows in order to avoid the consequences of having been caught shoplifting. On the way, Joel meets a map who shows him a map with three clues. When the man shows up again in Turtle Narrows, Joel acquires an unlikely companion in his new classmate Paige Duggan.. Joel shows Paige the drawings he made from memory about the map and together they match wits with the man seeking to discover what the map is leading to. But things are complicated when a silver compass disappears from a teacher's desk and Joel is suspect. When the man traps Joel and Paige in a shed on the wharf, their quest becomes so much more than a race against time! "Treasure At Turtle Lake" is a superbly crafted mystery by the award winning author Peggy Dymond Leavey that is confidently recommended from beginning to end as a terrific summer book for young readers.
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