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Mystery of Misty
- Author:
- Kopec, Carol
- Subjects:
- Family Relationships; Farm Life; Fantasy/Mystery
- Geography:
- Pennsylvania
- Age:
- 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Grade:
- 3, 4, 5, 6
- Order code:
- 4063
- Price:
- $9.99
- Online Price:
- $7.99
- Class sets:
- 10 or more: $7.00 each. (Order code: 4063S)
This is a delightful fantasy set in the present in and around a suburban Pennsylvania farm-house in which a college teacher, his artist/teacher wife, and their three children live. They rent it from elderly Mrs. Rumel. They love it and their country pets...Sapphire, a spoiled duck and Lipper, a people-loving chicken.
But Mrs. Rumel has run into a spate of ill health and must now sell the house to pay her rising medical bills. Mrs. Rumel knows that the family belongs in the farmhouse, because her grandmother’s ghost tells her so. The goose has an affinity for the middle child, adolescent Lucy, whose name and love of ducks parallels her own.
Unknown to their parents, the children have planned multiple hijinks to thwart any sale. Nonetheless, a rich couple does decide to purchase the house and renovate it extensively for their summer home. Lucy’s family will now face a single family dwelling market that it cannot afford, and an apartment will mean that the beloved pets will have to be left behind to forage for them-selves and probably die.
By chance, the children hear about the Silvering Treasure, and the race is on to find it on the property and use it to purchase the property before the buyers sign closing papers on the house.
Helping the family, through clues given by mindspeak to present day Lucy, is a mysterious duck with a fiery copper-red head, blue beak and golden eyes. Bluebill is a time-traveler from the 1860s, the pet of Mrs. Rumels grandmother. He returns up into the star-filled night only when all is properly resolved and is certain that Lucy’s family will remain in the house. Lucy has renamed Bluebill, Misty...short for mysterious.
Carol Kopec’s bucolic setting is fully pictured and captivating. Her human characters are three-dimensional, and her feathered friends are characters with specific personalities, distinctive appearances, antics and avian fondness towards kind-hearted humans. Delightfully original.
The author is a resident of Montana. She has also authored The Outrageous Truth About My Cat Einstein, a lighthearted fantasy novel.
This is a delightful fantasy set in the present in and around a suburban Pennsylvania farm-house in which a college teacher, his artist/teacher wife, and their three children live. They rent it from elderly Mrs. Rumel. They love it and their country pets...Sapphire, a spoiled duck and Lipper, a people-loving chicken.
But Mrs. Rumel has run into a spate of ill health and must now sell the house to pay her rising medical bills. Mrs. Rumel knows that the family belongs in the farmhouse, because her grandmother’s ghost tells her so. The goose has an affinity for the middle child, adolescent Lucy, whose name and love of ducks parallels her own.
Unknown to their parents, the children have planned multiple hijinks to thwart any sale. Nonetheless, a rich couple does decide to purchase the house and renovate it extensively for their summer home. Lucy’s family will now face a single family dwelling market that it cannot afford, and an apartment will mean that the beloved pets will have to be left behind to forage for them-selves and probably die.
By chance, the children hear about the Silvering Treasure, and the race is on to find it on the property and use it to purchase the property before the buyers sign closing papers on the house.
Helping the family, through clues given by mindspeak to present day Lucy, is a mysterious duck with a fiery copper-red head, blue beak and golden eyes. Bluebill is a time-traveler from the 1860s, the pet of Mrs. Rumels grandmother. He returns up into the star-filled night only when all is properly resolved and is certain that Lucy’s family will remain in the house. Lucy has renamed Bluebill, Misty...short for mysterious.
Carol Kopec’s bucolic setting is fully pictured and captivating. Her human characters are three-dimensional, and her feathered friends are characters with specific personalities, distinctive appearances, antics and avian fondness towards kind-hearted humans. Delightfully original.
The author is a resident of Montana. She has also authored The Outrageous Truth About My Cat Einstein, a lighthearted fantasy novel.
