Indian Ghost at Sutters Swamp: A Full Length Brodericks Mystery, Educational Version

By Caitlind L. Alexander

Kendall and Jamie Broderick are visiting a wilderness cabin with their father. After a day spent exploring, suddenly something is wrong. The weather and fog closes in around them, and the water of Sutter's Swamp seems to be working hard to keep them from getting back to their cabin.
They finally make it back, only to discover that they are alone. Their father is nowhere to be found. To make it worse, a ghostly voice continually echoes across the water, the voice of a long dead Native American warrior. Then suddenly he is in their cabin...!

Educational Versions Include exercises designed to meet Common Core Standards.

This is the second full-length mystery of the Kendall and Jamie Broderick Mysteries. This series includes both full-length mysteries and groups of 15-minute solve-it mysteries where kids can match wits with Kendall and Jamie.

• Language: English
• Publisher: LearningIsland.com
• Release date: Jan 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311998644

Caitlind L. Alexander

Caitlind Alexander is the author of over 60 books for children, including the Jamie and Kendall Broderick Mystery series, the 14 Fun Facts and 101 Fun Facts series, the Wonderful World of Animals Series, and the Miss Jones series.She lives in California where she loves to visit historic places and learn about new things. She also loves to travel and has been all over the world.

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INDIAN GHOST

AT SUTTER'S SWAMP

A Full-Length

Kendall and Jamie Broderick Mystery

by Caitlind L. Alexander

A LearningIsland.com

Mystery

Editor: Jennifer Robinson

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Smashwords Edition

(c) Copyright 2004 Caitlind L. Alexander. All rights reserved.

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Indian Ghost at Sutter's Swamp / Caitlind L. Alexander

Summary: Jamie and Kendall Broderick are spending the summer at Sutter's Swamp, when suddenly mysterious things start happening.

1. Mystery. Juvenile Literature. 2. Ghosts. Juvenile Literature. 3. Native Americans. Juvenile Literature.

Words 11,732

Reading Level: 4.2

Table Of Contents

Chapter 1: Spirit Lake

Chapter 2: The Sound of Drums

Chapter 3: The Island

Chapter 4: The Indian Ghost

Chapter 5: A Deserted Cabin

Chapter 6: The Arrival of the Ghost

Chapter 7: The New Day

Chapter 8: The End of the Ghost

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About the Author

CHAPTER 1: SPIRIT LAKE

DUM, DA-DA-DUM, DA-DA-DUM, DUM, DUM. Mr. Broderick slapped his hands happily against the hood of the car. Jamie and Kendall watched him walk around the front and then climb into the driver's seat.

Well, kids. We're going on a brand new adventure this time. New worlds for you to explore, or old ones actually; and a real quiet place for me to do my writing.

A new adventure? Jamie was excited. She had enjoyed last summer here at Spirit Lake.

All the cabins at Spirit Lake were filled up before we got our reservation in, their dad explained. Of course the fact that I didn't get around to calling them until last week might have had something to do with that.

Anyway, they stuck us upriver at Sutter's Swamp. Why don't you tell us all about it, he said as he tossed Kendall a color brochure.

Kendall opened it and began reading. Jamie looked out the window. The clear waters of Spirit Lake were off to her left, nestled among a forest of pine trees.

It was surrounded by numerous cabins, all spaced about 50 yards apart.

Spirit Lake got its name from the Wahpeton Indians who first settled this area, Kendall read. They had a large village in the northern end of the valley.

You kids have Indian blood in you, their father said. Actually you've probably only got enough Indian blood to fill up your big toe, but it's in there somewhere.

Not in Kendall, Jamie giggled. He bled all his out when he rode his bike off that mountain last year.

Their father laughed. Kendall joined in, but the memory made his body start aching all over again.

Anyway, Kendall quickly continued. The camp's general store is even built on the site of the first trading post for this area. Campers can hike the Indian trails and visit the painted rocks where the Indians created handprints and designs on huge granite boulders.

I want to see that, Jamie exclaimed.

The Indian legends said that Spirit Lake was where the Great Spirit came to drink, Kendall continued.

"Sutter's Swamp is more recent. It's five miles above Spirit Lake. It was settled by John Sutter, a trapper.

The last of the Wahpeton Indians were still using the area when Sutter moved in. The Indians didn't like him trapping their beaver and they insisted he was living on sacred ground. One day they captured him and killed him. The remains of his cabin can still be seen on the western side of Sutter's Swamp.

Oh look, their father said.

He stopped the car on a narrow wooden bridge which ran across a small stream. The kids followed the line of his pointing finger. It led to a huge pile of mud, trees, and twigs.

A beaver dam, Jamie exclaimed. As if to prove her right, a beaver suddenly appeared from the nearby woods and waddled his way down to the water. With a splash he disappeared among the reeds.

That must be the swamp, Kendall said. You could tell by his voice that he was disappointed. Jamie felt the same way.

It's not much of a swamp, she said. And it's all covered with grass and reeds sticking up. We won't be able to canoe on it at all.

"Maybe the man at the general store will let us store the canoe down