Red, Right, Return

Author: June Keating Sherwin

Title: Red, Right, Return

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 152

Release Date: 2011-12-05

Details: Review "A perfect summer thriller for young readers." - Kirkus Reviews"This well-paced children's mystery and adventure story is satisfactorily scary without being violent. . . . There's plenty here to entertain young readers, and their adult friends." - Indie ReaderWinner Kid's Fiction Category - Indie Reader Discovery Awards 2012 Product Description Eleven-year-old Chad Hatcher was only trying to get proof. No one would believe him without it. He'd spotted some men hauling suspicious looking rocks off a reef near his house in the Florida Keys, and he suspected that the shiny bits of metal embedded in the rocks were pieces of treasure from an ancient shipwreck site. It couldn't be a legal dive site; not that close to a protected reef.Coming up with a plan to stop the looters before they destroy the reef is simple . . . finding a way to get past his big sister, Georgene, is not. But when things suddenly go wrong, Chad, and his sister, must scramble for their lives through the backwaters of Sugarloaf Key--with no one to turn to but each other. From the Author A fast, and fun, adventure that kids, adults, (and even reluctant readers) can't resist, Red, Right, Return keeps three things in mind: 1) exciting boat days on the water in the Florida Keys, 2) prickly brother-sister relations, and 3) ancient Spanish treasure. Yes, I'm obsessed with treasure. Isn't everyone? About the Author I fell in love with Florida (old conch house Florida, that is) as a kid reading books under the whirring Hunter fan on my Grandpa Jack's porch overlooking the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers. The bond grew stronger years later during long, and very exciting, days fishing and diving with my husband and children in the Florida Keys; and stronger still up in Indian River County where our house on stilts faced the Atlantic Ocean out the front door and the Indian River out the back. I didn't write for kids at first. Other than journals and stories for myself, for years, the bulk of my writing was for business. As a national account manager for technology companies, and later as a branch administrator, I wrote training programs, policies and procedures, and corporate communications; everything explained in exact order with precise detail. Phew. Then I got the chance to teach fifth-grade language arts at a wonderful school in Florida, where my students gave me the encouragement I needed to write a story just for them. Aiming for a fast and fun adventure (that kids, adults, and even reluctant readers couldn't resist), I wrote Red, Right, Return with three things in mind: 1) exciting boat days on the water in the Florida Keys, 2) prickly brother-sister relations, and 3) ancient Spanish treasure. Yes, I'm obsessed with treasure. Isn't everyone? These days I live with my husband in Atlanta, GA where I stay busy substitute teaching and leading kid's writing workshops while I work on all sorts of writing projects along with the exciting sequel to RRR.

EAN: 9781462059584

Package Dimensions: Height: 8.5 Inches, Length: 5.5 Inches, Weight: 0.39903669422 Pounds, Width: 0.35 Inches

Languages: en