Adventures in the Northwoods Vol. 10: Disaster on Windy Hill
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This book has great adventure, the best I've read.
With the reward money in the previous adventure, the Mystery of the Missing Map, Kate with her step-brother Anders, her friend Erik, and her step-father head to Charlie Saunders' livery stable to buy herself a black spirited horse, she just about buys a bronco, but when she hears she can buy a poorly cared for mare and gelding, she yells "Sold." But on the way home, a man try's to grab Windsong, the mare, by the bridle. Could her horses be more valuable then she thought in the first place? When Kate's uncle Ben is in danger of losing his job by Dugan, a man who keeps stealing from the office at Nevers Dam, Kate soon finds out that Dugan is the former owner of Windsong and Breeze. One night Kate leaves a lit lantern in the barn, the next morning, Kate awakes to the sound of Anders' dog, Lutfisk, barking. When Kate looks out her bedroom window, she see's that the barn is on fire! Kate tells everyone, except her little sister Tina. Soon they just have to watch the barn burn down. Every animal is out, except for Windsong. Kate thinks she lit the barn on fire and killed Windsong. Will she find find the courage to tell her father how she feels guilty of the burned barn even though she thinks her Papa Nordstrom won't want her living under his roof any more? And will she be able to stop Dugan from opening the Dam and killing the boss of the Nevers Dam, Mr. Frawley? And will Kate realize that God not only has love for everyone else, but a great love for her?
December 20, 2010
Lois Walfrid Johnson is my favorite teen/preteen author. God has gifted this woman incredibly and she uses her gift for His glory. She has a riveting writing style that makes her books hard to set down. I reread the Northwoods Adventure series a couple years ago just for fun and found them just as captivating as when I first read them over 15 years ago. Young women and men alike can relate to the spiritual struggles of her characters and it serves to help ground them in their own faith. I give her books as gifts to the young people I work with and they love them! The other day a mother told me her daughter kept reading one of Johnson's books instead of doing her work.
April 6, 2010