Treasure at Turtle Lake

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Treasure at Turtle Lake

By Peggy Dymond Leavey

978-1-89491-749-0
March 2007
152pp, Paperback
$9.95 CAD

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Rather than face the consequences of his attempted shoplifting, twelve-year-old Joel Osler leaves his mother’s home in Toronto to go live with his dad and stepmother in Turtle Narrows. He hopes to make a fresh start in the little lakeside town. On the way, he meets a man who shows him the map with its three clues. Joel finds an unlikely ally in the fiercely independent Paige Duggan, a Grade Seven classmate at the school he now attends. Paige lives with her guardian and a growing number of rescued animals in a tiny cottage they call the Mousehole. In an effort to avoid his stepmother and hoping for a dog-walking job like Paige’s, Joel volunteers to work at the local animal shelter. Joel’s past mistakes come back to haunt him when a silver compass disappears from the teacher’s desk. Is he destined to be the number one suspect every time something goes missing? Joel shows Paige the drawings he remembers from the map, and the two team up to match wits against the man, hoping to discover the meaning of the three clues before he does.