The Happy Hollisters and the Mystery of the Golden Witch

by Jerry West, Helen S Hamilton (Illustrator)

Overview

The Happy Hollisters are excited about the upcoming autumn season, with plans for pumpkin decorating, bobbing for apples, and the Shoreham Halloween parade. They decide to host a party for their friends and Farmer Johnson offers the use of his barn for the festivities in exchange for the children's help selling pumpkins at his farm stand.

The mysteries begin almost right away, when the horn on Farmer Johnson's old Model T Ford begins to blow . . . when no one is in the car! Pete and Pam spy a girl in a red jacket running away from the barn, but she escapes into the woods before they can ask who she is. On the chase, they stumble on an ancient gravestone behind the barn--upon which is written a cryptic message about a hidden treasure. Then a stranger asks for the children's help finding a weathervane in the shape of a golden witch. Could all of these mysteries be related, and will they be solved before they interfere with the children's Halloween festivities?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781949436631
Publisher:	Svenson Group, Inc.
Publication date:	04/19/2019
Series:	Happy Hollisters , #30
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.39(d)
Lexile:	690L (what's this?)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

The Happy Hollisters by Jerry West was actually written by Andrew E. Svenson, a prolific yet somewhat anonymous, writer of books for children. Jerry West was the pen name assigned to Svenson when he started writing The Happy Hollisters for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book packager well-known for its development of children's book series including Tom Swift, The Bobbsey Twins, The Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew. Many of these series were intended to have long publishing lives, and were written by multiple authors using the same pseudonym.