Hangman's Gold (Slate Stephens Mysteries, 2) - Hardcover

Collard, Sneed B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0984446028 ISBN 13: 9780984446025

Publisher: Bucking Horse Books, 2011

Synopsis

After recovering the governor of Montana’s famous dog, Cat, in The Governor’s Dog is Missing, twelve-year-old sleuths Slate Stephens and Daphne McSweeney head to the infamous Montana ghost town of Bannack. While their geologist dads prospect for a large gold mining company, Slate and Daphne encounter a pair of perplexing puzzles. Under an old classroom desk in Montana’s first schoolhouse, the young detectives discover clues pointing to missing gold treasure amassed by Montana’s vigilantes 150 years earlier. At the same time, a thief has absconded with two priceless Charles Russell paintings on loan to the university art museum in nearby Dillon. In Hangman’s Gold, the second Slate Stephens mystery, clues and curiosity lead our two heroes to begin solving both mysteries―and dig up more dirt than they can handle.

About this title

About the Author:

Sneed B. Collard III graduated with honors in marine biology from U.C. Berkeley, and has gone on to write more than 75 acclaimed books for young people. His books are known for their high interest and strong, authoritative voice, and have broken new ground both in their style and subject matter. In 2006, Sneed was honored with the Washington Post-Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award for his body of work. Sneed’s most recent science book, Fire Birds―Valuing Natural Wildfires and Burned Forests, was a Junior Library Guild selection and named an Outstanding Science Trade Book by the National Science Teachers Association and Children’s Book Council.

From Booklist:

Preteen sleuths Slate and Daphne have no sooner recovered the governor of Montana’s dog when they become embroiled in a second mystery, this time involving vigilante gold and stolen paintings by cowboy artist Charles “C. M.” Russell. As in the previous title in the Slate Stephens Mysteries series, there is plenty of action to disguise the history lesson and propel the story around quieter moments—such as will Slate ever work up the nerve to kiss Daphne? Slate and Daphne are adept at dispensing justice with their smart, methodical, and slightly cocky approach to detecting. Criminals—you have been warned. Grades 4-7. --Kara Dean

About this edition

• Publisher: Bucking Horse Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0984446028
• ISBN 13: 9780984446025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208