About the Books - Adventurous Tales for Boys and Girls

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ElsBeth Amelia Thistle, the youngest witch on Cape Cod, is busy with all the normal aspects of growing up. Her teacher Ms. Finch is a horror, like something out of one of those scary movies her grandmother would never let her watch. And her obnoxious classmate, Robert Hillman-Jones, has it in for her.

But when Halloween approaches in the sleepy Cape Cod town, a never-quite-forgotten pirate’s treasure awakens some serious trouble. 

ElsBeth and her friend Johnny Twofeathers, chief-to-be of the local Wampanoag tribe, together with a cast of spirited classmates and curious magical creatures, must face off against dangerous outsiders -- and the notorious pirate Billy Bowlegs -- to restore the balance of past and present, good and evil.

114 pages

Recommended for ages 7-10

ElsBeth's grandmother worries there are too many out-of-control ghosts in Boston for ElsBeth’s field trip off-Cape to the historic Freedom Trail. But the young Cape Cod witch is determined to go on this adventure and Sylvanas, her cat, handles that.
 

The real danger turns out to be human when one of her classmates from a royal  Arabian family is kidnapped. ElsBeth encounters and enlists the ghost of the famous (and fearsome) Captain Thomas Jacques - to lead the sea chase all the way to Nantucket Island.
 

But ElsBeth needs all the science and magic her grandmother has taught her, and help from the birds and fishes she also recruits to their cause. And along the way she and her friends find out about fighting for freedom, and caring for something bigger than themselves.
 

Readers also discover a treasure chest of historical nuggets and Cape and Islands lore, together with a brief sketch of the authentic Captain Thomas Jacques. 

196 pages

Recommened for Ages 8-10
 

On an end of summer sail, ElsBeth and her friends end up lost on the ocean. For days. Magic, not ElsBeth's, is involved. But when they reach Scotland, the threat is an all-too-real-world environmental disaster posed by a criminal genius named “Gorgeous.” 

This odd group of  tweenagers range from super-smart to goofy but are all passionate environmentalists. And with the aid of local ghosts and magical “beasties,”  ElsBeth and her classmates might just outwit this handsome-faced, extremely bad guy.

222 pages

Recommended for Ages 9-12