The Adventures of Elle Crane - Mission: Bahamas

by Chris Crilley

Overview

Mystery. Adventure. And a trip to the Bahamas with the Crane family. Meet your new favorite book character Elle Crane in: The Adventures of Elle Crane – Mission: Bahamas.

Elle's mom works for a highly secret, scientific government organization, called "The Lab." When Chris Crane is sent to the Bahamas on assignment, the whole Crane family tags along for the adventure.

Elle and her older sister, Leah, soon find themselves deep in a mysterious adventure with old pirate ships, vanishing strangers, and top-secret experiments. Elle and Leah decide that it is up to them to uncover the truth about the strange and secret happenings on their island paradise of Grand Bahama Island.

Enjoy encountering Stingrays and Bottlenose dolphins with Elle and join the Crane family on their mission to save themselves and important experiments for "The Lab." This mystery adventure will appeal to children and adults alike. The Elle Crane mystery/adventure series is written to appeal to children age 8+ to read alone or together with their parents.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158520532
Publisher:	Green Fern Publishing
Publication date:	05/25/2016
Series:	The Adventures of Elle Crane , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	85
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Chris L. Crilley’s fiction first appeared in print in 2000 as one of 16 other first time authors when they co-wrote and self-published: A Killing Season – An Iowa Murder Mystery. Then in 2014 she wrote her first children’s book: Mystery at the Palisades Cabins, A Leah Crandall Mystery (published in eBook as well as paperback.) In her newest series, Ms. Crilley introduces reader to The Adventures of Elle Crane – Mission: Bahamas (eBook and paperback) published in 2016. Both series revolve around characters inspired by her two daughters and were self-published by Green Fern Publishing LLC.

Ms. Crilley is a general practice attorney and collaborative lawyer in Iowa. After graduating from the University of Northern Iowa in 1979 with honors in Speech Communications and English, Ms. Crilley went on to attend the University Of Iowa College Of Law earning her J.D. degree, with distinction, in 1983. In addition to her 30 year law practice Ms. Crilley is also an accomplished Mediator as well as a nationally approved Mediation Trainer. Always trying to find alternative forms of dispute resolution, Chris became a member of the Academy of International Collaborative Professionals as well as a member of the Collaborative Lawyers of Eastern Iowa.

Ms. Crilley speaks to and trains various organizations on a variety of law and dispute resolution related topics such as “Team Building” and “Alternate Forms of Dispute Resolution”. Her professional writings include the training manual for both her 40-Hour Mediation Training as well as her 14-hour Collaborative Law Training; A Mediator’s Desk Guide to Mediation in Iowa; and two workbooks: Expectations in the Workplace; and Dispute Resolution: Text and Workbook for a college level course that she instructed.

In her spare time she enjoys exercising the creative side of her brain by writing adventure/mystery fiction books for children and adults. Chris and her husband have two children and several pets all of whom usually find themselves in her writings. Ms. Crilley’s writings contain a strong family theme mixed with action, suspense and humor. Chris enjoys traveling with her family and most of the locations they visit end up as the backdrops for many of her story lines.

Chris has quite a “to do” list of story lines and she always has an idea brewing for her next book in the Elle Crane or Leah Crandall series. She works on both series every chance she gets, much to the delight of her two girls.