Secret in the Sand

by Margaret Turner Taylor

Overview

Imagine digging a hole in the sand during your summer vacation at the beach and finding a trunk that's been buried there since World War II. The past and the present converge when two cousins, who are playing in the sand near Bethany Beach, Delaware on a bright summer morning, uncover the decades-old trunk. The discovery forever changes their lives. This thriller for the young-at-heart is rich with the history of German U-boat warfare off the Mid-Atlantic seacoast, the intrigue of stolen identities, and a collection of mysterious photographs from the past. Readers will love getting to know the woman who lived in Rose Cottage during the war years with her dogs Licorice and Vanilla. Who will solve the mystery of the unknown person who left a fortune for the ages buried in the dunes? After so much time has passed, will it even be possible to uncover the truth of who abandoned the SECRET IN THE SAND?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781953082992
Publisher:	LLOURETTIA GATES BOOKS, LLC
Publication date:	07/01/2020
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.39(d)
Age Range:	6 - 12 Years

About the Author

Margaret Taylor currently spends the summer months at her gray, shingled beach house near Bethany Beach, Delaware and lives in southeast Arizona during the winter. Secret in the Sand is the first in a series of youth books she has written for her grandchildren.

Table of Contents

On the Beach

By the Sea

By the Beautiful Sea

The Winds of War

The Second Happy Time

Reinhard's Gold

Smile!

The Wise Man Arrives

Old Money

The Summer of '42

I've Got Plenty of Nothin'

Time Changes Everything

I Have a Photograph

I Have a Photograph, Too

Pieces of the Puzzle

Back to the Future

Editorial Reviews

"This is a heck of a good read."

"SECRET IN THE SAND would make a terrific Disney movie."

"I hope there really was a Rose Cottage somewhere. I love Rose Cottage and want to live there."

"Love the dogs! Great names!"

"I always wondered what it would have been like to live at the beach during the war and before it all got built up. Now I feel like I know what it was like here in Bethany back in the day."

"This is not just a book for kids. It's a book grownups will love, too."

"The story of the German U-boats and the destruction they brought to the Mid-Atlantic coast of the United States is an underreported part of history. SECRET IN THE SAND really makes that time come alive."

"I'm really glad to read a book about Delaware. Lots of people don't even know Delaware is a state."

"I know the author is not the right age to have lived this story, but when I read SECRET IN THE SAND, I felt it was autobiographical. It was so real."

"How great that you put in so much history. Kids don't get enough exposure to history these days."

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