Much Ado About Grubstake by Jean Ferris
It’s a fun mystery/treasure hunt set in the Old West.
Recommended age: 10 – 12; 12 – 14
Arley Pickett — sixteen-year-old, orphan, boarding house owner, and reader of Penny Dreadfuls — is suspicious. A strange city slicker comes to their dusty little town of Grubstake (population 62) claiming he is going to turn it into a resort! Grubstake is a half-abandoned mining town whose mines are totally empty of profit. And the city slicker wants to buy all the mines! Something doesn’t add up, so Arley gets on the case. Then a strange man dressed all in black comes into town, and Arley gets involved in something deeper than even she could imagine.
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