Mystery at Moccasin Creek

By Judy Worsham

Maple Grove is having a Founder's Day, and all the Barnhill family is taking part. Tom and Jake are in charge of the cornhole game; there's a parade down Main Street with people coming from far and wide. The men of the church are grilling hot dogs and hamburgers, while the ladies of the church are selling slices of homemade cakes and pies.

Who would ever suspect that trouble was about to come to this nice quiet village? What could a bank robbery in West Virginia have to do with Tom and Jake? Here are some clues, a hobo, a train, and a kidnapping. It makes for the most exciting and dangerous mystery of the boys' lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886858518

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Table of Contents

Title

Copyright

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

About the Author

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Mystery at Moccasin Creek

Judy Worsham

ISBN 979-8-88685-850-1 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88685-851-8 (digital)

Copyright © 2023 by Judy Worsham

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Chapter 1

Lottie looked out the kitchen window as she washed the breakfast dishes. Across the pasture was Moccasin Creek. Normally a quiet, peaceful little creek on the backside of Orchard Hill farm, today it was angry. It was out of its banks, out in the pasture, as though it had a bad attitude like I'll go where I want to go. It had been raining for the past three days. The sun was out this morning, and Lottie wondered what her youngest son, Tom, and his best friend Jake were going to do today. She didn't want the boys going near the raging creek.

Tom and Jake were in the hen house gathering eggs. Trouble was, there weren't any eggs. They had let the chickens out into the barnyard to roam freely. There hadn't been any eggs yesterday either, but Tom thought that was because the storm made them nervous.

After we clean the hen house, I am going to ask Papa why the hens aren't laying, Tom said.

Tom's father had majored in agriculture at the state college. There was raking of the old straw to do, and then they must gather it and place it in the wheelbarrow. Next, they would have to replace the old straw with a new one. Then there were the nesting boxes, six in all, for eighteen hens that had to have more straw. Three chickens could use one nesting box to lay their