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Mystery at Pirate's Cove

by Elizabeth Deese, illustrated by Anna Smith

127 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); black and white illustrations; catalogue #05-0016; ISBN 1-4120-5121-5; US$16.00, C$18.00, EUR13.00, £9.00

Grandmother's restaurant, Pirate's Cove, is being constantly robbed of its supplies. Her grandchildren team up with two children from the area and solve the mystery that the police can't.

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About the Book

Two young children are spending their first full summer vacation with their widowed grandmother and her brother, Uncle Joe, in the small town of Bath, North Carolina. They are not looking forward to staying in the small town. They think they have a long boring summer ahead. But they learn that their grandmother's restaurant, Pirate's Cove, is being constantly robbed of its supplies. They team up with two other children from the neighborhood and solve the baffling mystery that even the police can't seem to solve. Could some of the things Uncle Joe tells them about the pirate Blackbeard set them on the right track in solving the Mystery at Pirate's Cove?

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About the Author

Elizabeth Deese is an assistant teacher at an elementary school in Belmont, North Carolina. She has worked with EC children, AIG students and in a regular classroom as well as teaching in the computer lab for over 16 years. She has the unique ability to make up stories and tell them to the children without writing them down. She just tells them "off the top of her head" as she likes to put it. "The children seem to love my stories. I can't even remember most of the ones I've told over the years. Last year I had a group of youngsters who insisted I write them a special story. I wrote three fairy tales, but my favorite was the mystery story called Mystery at Pirate's Cove. The children encouraged me to publish this book so they could have a copy. This is my first publication, but I hope it won't be my last."

Before becoming an assistant teacher, Elizabeth worked first as a production manager and later a general manager for a successful commercial mailing service. She recalls not liking to write as a child, but as an adult things seem to change and she found she loved making up stories and writing about things that just popped into her head!

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