The Boy in Mitchell Bay

<p><strong>A strange coin. A hidden diary. An unexplained death. Secrets.</strong></p><p> </p><p>When a diverse group of five friends attempt to solve the fifty-year-old mystery of an unidentified boy who drowned during a hurricane they uncover a disturbing case of racial segregation.</p><p> </p><p>Ian Cooper makes a lot of mistakes like any eleven-year-old boy. But when he accidentally sets the forest on fire behind his house his mother has had enough. His plans to build a model ship his late father gave him are dashed when she ships him off to his grandparents in the sleepy seaside village of Mitchell Bay for the summer.</p><p> </p><p>Ian learns the town has a fifty-year-old unsolved mystery - a boy drowned in the bay during a hurricane and remains unidentified. As Ian makes friends with a small diverse group of kids they pledge to solve the mystery before the summer ends. Their efforts are thwarted by Ian's overprotective grandmother the town bully a shady librarian with a dark past and an ominous hurricane that puts Ian and his friends in peril.</p><p>302 pages</p>