Preston and the Great Airship Caper: Adventure Kids, #6

By T. James Logan

Look! Up in the sky!

Preston loves taking care his family's farm animals, especially the little ones, like puppies and kittens.

But when all the animals suddenly disappear, he realizes there must be some serious skulduggery afoot!

Being turned into a superhero isn't what he was expecting today, but a dusting of strange, magical powder is just the beginning.

Can Preston save all the animals from a terrible fate before the thief disappears forever?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bear Paw Publishing
• Release date: Sep 13, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393819141

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Preston

and the

Great Airship Caper

By

T. James Logan

Bear Paw Publishing Denver

www.bearpawpublishing.com

Copyright © 2020 by T. James Logan

Cover Illustration by João Rodri

Cover Design by Kaylen Helgason

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, or mechanical without explicit permission in writing from the Author or Publisher.

Preston arranged himself carefully in the crook of the elm tree branches, crouching for the jump. If he could hit the trampoline below, directly in the center, he might break his personal record for highest jump. He checked the kitchen window for signs of his mom. If she caught him jumping out of the tree, he’d get yelled at.

The warm, summer breeze tickled his buzz cut and made his cape flutter.

It wasn’t a cape, really, but his old, blue blanket tied around his neck like a superhero’s cape. He had had it with him every day that he could remember, as familiar as his own hands. He could find it by its smell in the pitch dark. It was worn thin in places, the corners a little tattered, but Mom kept fixing it. And when he wore it like a cape, he was tall enough now that it didn’t drag on the ground anymore. Long ago, when he first started practicing flight by jumping back and forth from the easy chair to the sofa, he had vowed that if he ever became a superhero, this would be his cape, just like Superman used his baby blanket from Krypton as a cape.

The trampoline sure was a long way down.

His brother Evan, two years older, made this jump routinely—when Mom wasn’t looking, of course—but today, Preston had decided to try it himself for the first time. What held him back was remembering how Evan had once bounced completely off the trampoline and hit the ground in a pile. He wasn’t injured, but the impact had knocked the wind out of him.

Preston tried to scrape together enough courage to jump.

While he did that, he noticed Izzy sniffing excitedly around the shed where she’d had her litter of eight puppies about a month before, inside the shelter of an old tractor tire, which kept them nicely penned. A dark-gray Lab with yellow eyes, Izzy was a genius sometimes, an idiot other times. But right now, she was very interested in sniffing around for something. Maybe later, Preston would climb into the ring of the old tire and sit down for