The Riddle of Penncroft Farm

Description

Purple Dragonfly Children's Book Awards First Place Winner (Historical Fiction) International Reading Association Teachers' Choices Selection Young Lars Olafson moves with his parents to the old family farm near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to live with his aged aunt Cass. Lars is miserable--until he meets Geordie, a boy whose stories of the Revolutionary War are as exciting as those of an eyewitness. Then, when Lars is faced with a crucial mystery linked to the Revolutionary War, his only chance of solving it lies in Geordie's ghostly tales.