Andrea Spalding - Adventure.Net: The Silver Boulder

Andrea Spalding

Picture	Secret of the Dance Bottled Sunshine It's Raining, It's Pouring Me and Mr Mah Solomon's Tree Most Beautiful Kite in the World Sarah May and the New Red Dress A Special Gift A World of Stories
Young Adult	Phoebe and the Gypsy The Keeper and the Crows An Island of My Own Finders Keepers
Summer of Magic	[1] The White Horse Talisman [2] Dance of the Stones [3] Heart of the Hill [4] Behind The Sorcerer's Cloak
Adventure.NET	[1] The Lost Sketch [2] The Silver Boulder [3] The Disappearing Dinosaur [4] The Klondike Ring
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Adventure.Net:
The Silver Boulder

By: Andrea and David Spalding
Cover Illustration by: Chrissie Wysotski
Published by: Whitecap Books
Available in: Softcover, 143pp, 2000
ISBN: 1-55285-105-2

Willow and Rick are in B.C.'s Kootenay Mountains , in an adventure which involves a lost silver boulder, the last remaining sternwheeler, and memories of the internment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II.

Sister and brother sleuths Willow and Rick are back! This time they're searching for a lost boulder full silver, as big as a truck. Everyone they meet in Kaslo, B.C., seems to have a secret. Why is a young woman spying on them? Where is the other half of the treasure map? And is there really a ghost on the SS Moyie? As they hunt deeper and deeper, they discover disturbing things about the past and try to find a way to help new friends regain what they lost.

The first book in the Adventure.net series, "The Lost Sketch", featured Rick and Willow finding a mysterious picture in a boxcar in Ontario, meeting an art forger, and racing against time to find out if the art was created by one of the Group of Seven.

This new series is unique as it incorporates intriguing non-fiction fact boxes and actual internet sites into the fiction story.

- Andrea and David ... deal with the stuff of life in a context that teenagers can understand which makes books like this important as well as fun. Island Tides

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