The Kansas City Marvels: The FBI Briefcase - Softcover
The first in the series. The Kansas City Marvels: The FBI Briefcase, is a story about nine fatherless kids who form their own baseball team so they can play on the ball diamond they created for themselves in an abandoned hay field west of the Kansas City Airport. The Marvels can't afford to belong to a Little League team, but they are so good at their game that everyone wants a chance to play them. The local teams just can't wait to get trounced. The kids are free spirits; the way kids used to be in the early years of this country. They spend their long summer days on their bikes, wandering the airport grounds and the rest of their territory west of I-29. They play games they've devised themselves and get into minor trouble. One day that changes when they find a briefcase at the "port", as they call KCI, and become involved up to their little necks in the FBI's business. Life changes drastically for them. Soon things get out of control and now there's no going back to those carefree days of batting and catching practice. The kids are helpless to prevent the unfolding of a dark mystery, so sinister that it threatens their very own lives. The Marvels find it necessry to take matters into their own hands as they solve thier first case for the FBI.
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From the Author:
The first in the Kansas City Marvels series is about nine fatherless kids who form their own baseball team. They also form themselves into a family of their own. Their fathers aren't with them, and most have never even met them. Their mothers work long hours to support them and are often absent. They're very poor, but The Marvels have the ability to look around themselves, see what in life works and what doesn't, and most often choose to take the moral high road. They support each other, encourage each other, and protect each other. Language necessary to convey believablity. Appropriate for young adults and adults. Told from the childhood memories of the main character, FBI Agent in charge of the Kansas City FBI Bureau, Samuel B. Jenkins.
About the Author:
Elaine Deyo writes mystery and adventure books and creates Art Felts in her studio in Branson, Missouri.Winters were so harsh there that the fuel lines would often freeze solid during a cold winter night. In those days, mothers were housewives, fathers came home for dinner at noon and the evening meal was called supper. Town kids ran free every day. Church and Sunday school attendance were givens. In her mostly Scandinavian community, children were meant to be seen and not heard, but as a child, Elaine felt entitled to express her opinions. Some of the townsfolk viewed her as rebellious, headstrong, and willful. Those traits continue to serve her well to this very day. Successfully published at age ten, Elaine wrote a poem about Thanksgiveing for a contest hosted by her town's newspaper. It won first place and was printed on the front page that season and for many seasons afterward. She wrote real estate advertising, designed countless menus for restaurants and wrote a weekly restaurant column about a fictitious character describing his new life in the Big City. It was humorous and believable. The restaurant received many letters written to her character. There were so many demands to meet him that it became necessary to construct a hovel under the basement stairs to show visitors proof of his existence. Elaine is truly an imaginative writer.
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- PublisherAuthorhouse
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1403301719
- ISBN 13 9781403301710
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages108
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