Mysteries in Our National Parks:
Over the Edge
by Gloria Skurzynski and Alane Ferguson
National Geographic Children’s Books
2008
pp. 149
Paperback
ISBN 978-1426301773
$5.95
Synopsis
Wildlife veterinarian Olivia Landon has been asked to help find the source of the lead shotgun pellets that are poisoning the few remaining California condors in Grand Canyon National Park. After she announces a plan, Olivia receives a death threat on her laptop. The plot soon thickens to involve the Landon kids, Jack and Ashley, and the family’s temporary ward—15-year-old Morgan Rogers, a rebellious self-proclaimed anarchist and computer buff. Tension mounts when the e-mail threat is almost carried out and Morgan is the only witness. The following investigation leads readers on a trip through Morgan’s cyberworld connections and builds to a thrilling conclusion.
About the author
An award-winning mystery writer and an award-winning science writer—who are also mother and daughter—are working together on Mysteries in Our National Parks! Alane (Lanie) Ferguson’s first mystery, Show Me the Evidence, won the Edgar Award, give by the Mystery Writers of America.
Gloria Skurzynski’s Almost the Real Thing won the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award. Lanie lives in Elizabeth, Colorado. Gloria lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. To work together on a novel, they connect by phone, fax, and e-mail and “often forget which one of us wrote a particular line.”
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