Skull Creek Stakeout (Caden Chronicles) - Softcover

Jones, Eddie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1946016969 ISBN 13: 9781946016966

Publisher: Illuminate YA, 2013

Synopsis

★ Purple Dragonfly Award Winner for Middle Grade Fiction ★ First published by Zonderkidz

The good news is, vampires aren't real. The bad news is...you can't believe the news.

Nick Caden is a normal fourteen-year-old kid with a "supernatural" knack for finding trouble, ghosts, vampires, and all sorts of undead—or so it seems.

After solving the ghost story murder at Deadwood Canyon, Nick lands a job as a roving reporter for The Cool Ghoul Gazette, a website on paranormal or supernatural disturbances. When the editor sends Nick to investigate a murder in Transylvania, North Carolina, the young super sleuth finds a corpse with fangs, bite marks and a stake driven through the heart. If Nick proves vampires are real, his job as an investigative journalist is set for life! But once he begins to peel back the clues Nick finds his new job is not only scary and dangerous but about to suck the life out of him.

The Caden Chronicles—award-winning fiction for boys.

About this title

About the Author

Q: Who is the target audience for Skull Creek Stakeout?
The Caden Chronicles Series is intended for middle-grade readers and up, particularly those who enjoy mystery, adventure, and clean, family-friendly content.

Q: Why should a boy or girl begin reading the Caden Chronicles Series?
Novels in the series are fast, fun, clean teen and tween books. Boys and girls will fall in love with the quirky characters Nick meets, their oddball antics, and the way Nick solves murder cases by watching police and detective shows—all while Nick displays daring confidence and finds himself in trouble and danger.

Q: Why should parents buy these books for their children?
Parents will appreciate the clean elements and moral values that avoid profanity and sexual situations. As an imperfect teen sleuth, Nick is troubled by the phoniness he sees around him and the lies of others that pass for facts. Above all, he wants to find the truth. This drives him to act in ways that lead him toward danger. The girls who help Nick solve the cases are independent, smart, brave, and often see things Nick overlooks.

Q: What age is appropriate for these books?
The Caden Chronicles Series is appropriate for mature fifth-grade readers. Other parents may choose sixth or seventh grade because Nick is solving a murder. 

Q: What is the theme of Skull Creek Stakeout?
What if a person could live forever? What would that look like? How could it happen? Jesus says, "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood will live forever." — John 6:54. We know he was speaking figuratively, that His blood for our sins gives us eternal life. So, in a sense, the pirating of the message of Jesus and the gothic horror vampire myth that sprang from this truth is what spurred me to write Skull Creek Stakeout. I want readers of all ages to know there is life beyond the grave, and we do not have to drink blood to enjoy eternal life. — Eddie Jones, Pirate Preacher

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Edition details

• Publisher: Illuminate YA
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1946016969
• ISBN 13: 9781946016966
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192