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The Gold Bug of Farrow Point Parkway Publishers Scary? How would you feel if you found a coded message that seemed to be a child’s game and then found out that you were being drawn deeper and deeper into something that spelled nothing but trouble? Should Ellen and George tell their parents about the coded message? Maybe they should, but they didn’t. Ellen and George were on vacation in a Florida fishing village. With every passing day, with that note as their secret, the fun part of decoding the message dimmed, and the danger grew—especially after they tried to follow Pico. In the end, it was urgent: Ellen, decode the message to save your brother or . . . Can you decode the message ahead of Ellen? Try. The Gold Bug of Farrow Point is a mystery for young-adults who have keen, probing minds and a sense of adventure. A brother and sister, who were on a Florida vacation, slowly decode a message that brings them into a world they didn’t know existed. The sleepy fishing village they are in becomes fraught with all kinds of danger—kidnapping, smuggling, and a brush with murder. The versatility of Jack R. Pyle’s writing skills is apparent when you realize that a man in his eighties can take you inside the heads of an eleven-year-old girl and a thirteen-year-old boy with complete honesty. When he says, “I’m still a kid,” you can believe him.
Reviews “I bought this book for my niece because we met the author at a book signing, and he told Ellie, ‘This
Links Visit Jack R. Pyle’s Web site at http://pylereesebooks.tripod.com/index.html.
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