Hidden guns and heart-stopping adventure where not what eleven-year-old Chad and Penny were expecting to find in the trash barrel of Chad's mysterious and scary new neighbor. They were just collecting recyclable cans -- really! Chad and Penny are members of Earthkeepers, a club of concerned kids trying to do their part to clean up the environment.

    Figuring out why the gun was in the garbage was the easy part, compared with trying to figure out who the good guys and the bad guys are!

    They had no intention of trying to clean up the illegal gun trade. Or of getting involved with the FBI. Or of helping solve a mysterious murder in the park. It all just sort of... happened.  

    Hidden guns and heart-stopping adventure where not what eleven-year-old Chad and Penny were expecting to find in the trash barrel of Chad's mysterious and scary new neighbor. They were just collecting recyclable cans -- really! Chad and Penny are members of Earthkeepers, a club of concerned kids trying to do their part to clean up the environment.

    Figuring out why the gun was in the garbage was the easy part, compared with trying to figure out who the good guys and the bad guys are!

    They had no intention of trying to clean up the illegal gun trade. Or of getting involved with the FBI. Or of helping solve a mysterious murder in the park. It all just sort of... happened.  

    With cantankerous Old Man Wickner's history of scrapes with the law, it's a good bet that whatever is going on, it's bad. But eleven-year-old Chad and Penny couldn't have guessed just how bad it really was, of the dangers that faced their community -- especially their good friend Emma Furrow, who lives right across the road from the foreboding Wickner's Woods.

    Chad and Penny are members of Earthkeepers, a club of concerned kids trying to do their part to clean up the environment.  And that's just what they were doing when they ran into Old Man Wickner-looking for old metal to recycle.  Trouble is, they were looking for it in his woods.

    And he doesn't want anybody looking for anything in those woods.  But that's not likely to discourage Chad, Penny, and Emma.  Maybe it should -- but it won't!

    It was a miracle.  Penny's aunt was kidnapped, taken to the woods, and then miraculously saved by an unseen, hidden archer.  The only clue to his identity was a handmade arrow.  Eleven-year-old Penny and her friend, Chad, determine to get to the bottom of the mystery.

    Chad and Penny are members of Earthkeepers, a club of concerned kids trying to do their part to clean up the environment.  They're in the north woods of Minnesota to plant trees -- supposedly.  In a well-hidden cave they find a coffee can full of newspaper clippings that seem only to raise more questions.  Maybe the mysterious stranger is no angel after all!  And maybe Penny and Chad shouldn't be out in the woods!

    Especially since they're increasingly certain they are not alone...

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