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Best friends Angela Black and Emmie Seegal have to come up with a way to earn some summer spending money after their baby-sitting job falls through. Fortunately, both of them have lots of experience with animals, so hiring themselves out at pet sitters seems like the perfect solution to their money woes. When their friend, Captain Targus, is called away on business, the girls get the job of going out to Mason’s Island everyday to look after his cat, Rascal.
The island, which is a half hour’s boat ride from Mahone Bay, where Emmie and Angela live, is owned by the old ferryboat captain but used to be home to a small fishing community. After moving out there to keep a rather forlorn cat happy, the girls decide to explore Mason’s Island in hopes of finding pirate treasure. What they uncover, instead, is evidence of illegal activity. Marooned on the island after an unsettling encounter with a scar-faced intruder, and an overheard conversation that suggests their lives might be at risk, the girls must decide whether to remain on the island or strike out for the mainland in a leaky dory.
Danger at Mason’s Island is the second Angela and Emmie Adventure by Tom Schwartzkopf, and is sure to capture the attention of readers from Grades 3 to 6. The third book in the girls’ adventures, Trouble Twins Save Christmas, was published in September 2007.
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