Meet the Cayuga Island Kids! It’s summer vacation, and that means there’s plenty of time for a hunt, a mystery, and an exciting adventure. Are you ready? Open the book and join the fun. Find out what the Cayuga Island Kids are up to in this mystery story based on historical events on Cayuga Island near Niagara Falls!
Story by Judy Bradbury | Illustrations by Gabriella Vagnoli
130 pages
ISBN: 978-1-952536-14-4 (softcover)
ISBN: 978-1-952536-16-8 (hardcover)
Vivian Vande Velde –
Likeable kids use their distinctive personalities and particular interests to solve mysteries. Good fun and gentle humor abound. Author Judy Bradbury subtly guides readers in how to research a subject of interest. Gabriella Vagnoli’s lively illustrations show that the children are as diverse as their interests.
James Preller –
Any book that begins with a map of an island is my kind of story. Enliven that setting with a diverse group of characters who are consistently kind—and bursting with curiosity—and you’ve got all the elements of a series that is alive with adventure, friendship, and mystery.
margaret carey –
Judy Bradbury introduces her readers to the Cayuga Island Kids, a diverse group of children ready for the adventures of summer vacation on the island. Their first quest is to find a dogwood tree, a tree that sounds like a barking dog when it’s branches are rubbed together. Along the way, the five children discover a mysterious object buried on their island. Is this object part of the history of Cayuga Island? The Kids enlist the help of their school librarian, a park volunteer, a college professor and an archaeologist to help them research, analyze the facts, and solve The Mystery of the Barking Branches and the Sunken Ship. Illustrations by Gabriella Vagnoli add detail and life to this fun summer adventure. This reader can’t wait to read the next book in the series, when author Judy Bradbury and illustrator Gabriella Vagnoli share The Adventures of the Big Fish by the Small Creek, Book Two in this fun new series.