Windy Rafters Roughnecks Book 1: Mystery at the Barn
This book is the first in a historical fiction series for children ages 8-12. Set at Windy Rafters Resort in southern Alberta, a group of cousins, grandchildren of the resort owners, find themselves suspects in a series of petty thefts and mischief. In order to clear their names, the children organize themselves as the Windy Rafters Roughnecks.
Working out of an old treehouse on the property, the Roughnecks make their own suspect list and start investigating some of the people who work at the resort or live in the neighborhood. Through their efforts they get to know the suspects and even become friends with some of them.
Just when they think they have solved the crime, the younger children are transported back in time to the days before colonization, when Blackfoot people lived on the land. Trapped in the past and dependent on the Blackfoot for survival, the children gain a new perspective on themselves and more insight into another pressing problem at Windy Rafters Resort: whether or not the family should sell the resort to a company from California.
This book is the first in a historical fiction series for children ages 8-12. Set at Windy Rafters Resort in southern Alberta, a group of cousins, grandchildren of the resort owners, find themselves suspects in a series of petty thefts and mischief. In order to clear their names, the children organize themselves as the Windy Rafters Roughnecks.
Working out of an old treehouse on the property, the Roughnecks make their own suspect list and start investigating some of the people who work at the resort or live in the neighborhood. Through their efforts they get to know the suspects and even become friends with some of them.
Just when they think they have solved the crime, the younger children are transported back in time to the days before colonization, when Blackfoot people lived on the land. Trapped in the past and dependent on the Blackfoot for survival, the children gain a new perspective on themselves and more insight into another pressing problem at Windy Rafters Resort: whether or not the family should sell the resort to a company from California.
