Mystery of the Eagle's Nest

by Tamra Wight, Carl DiRocco

Overview

Trouble has returned to Wilder Family Campground. When Cooper and Packrat find their geocache box full of illegal eagle parts, their lazy summer is over. Someone wants those valuable parts back. And if they can’t get the parts back, they’ll settle for holding one of the rare Pine Lake eaglets hostage instead. Cooper, Packrat, and Roy must elude two goons, tolerate an annoying teenager, keep tabs on a shady new camper, and stake out the eagle’s nest—all without getting grounded. Tamra Wight has written an exciting follow-up to Mystery on Pine Lake, a tale ripe with adventure and natural history, but above all, one of compassion and friendship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781939017369
Publisher:	Islandport Press
Publication date:	08/21/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	180
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	8 - 10 Years

About the Author

Tamra Wight lives in Poland, Maine, where she runs the Poland Spring Campground with her husband and two children. Every summer she meets interesting families from all over the world, and that helped inspire her to write "Mystery on Pine Lake: Cooper and Packrat Book One," a Junior Library Guild selection which was released in 2013. During the school year, she works as a teaching assistant at Whittier Middle School. Between the two, she has more writing inspiration than she knows what to do with! She is the also the author of "The Three Grumpies." When Tamra isn't writing, she enjoys wildlife watching, hiking, geo-caching, kayaking, power-walking, snowshoeing; most of these she does with her faithful lab Cookie.

Editorial Reviews

2014-06-10
In the second eco-mystery in the Cooper and Packrat series, Cooper and his friends are on the trail of eagle poachers.Nature-lover and critter-defender Cooper Wilder works at his family’s business, the Wilder Family Campground, where he does odd jobs and, to his chagrin, cleans cabins and toilets. With the help of his best friends, Packrat and Roy, he also hides geocache boxes throughout the campground for the campers to track and uncover. On a routine check of one of the boxes, Cooper finds himself pursued by two goofy suit- and tie-clad goons bent on stealing it from him. After losing them, he and Packrat open the box—but they don’t find the usual logbook and pencil. Instead, it contains a real eagle’s head adorning a ceremonial stick along with a pair of eagle claws and a handful of feathers. Knowing that the birds are a protected species, Cooper dives into the mystery. Wight ratchets up the threat level when the two men—as well as a series of additional suspicious-looking guests—check into the campground. The well-plotted story with spot-on kid dialogue will have readers alternately laughing and puzzling out the mystery; DiRocco’s simple black-and-white illustrations neatly highlight both funny and serious moments. Alas, going without depiction is one hilarious scene in which one of Cooper’s friends attempts to distract the bad guys by burping through the alphabet.This mystery soars while the feathers and fun fly. (Mystery. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews