War Train
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Donald Willerton
Paperback: Perfect bound, 162 pages , 5.5" x 8.5" ISBN 978-1-948749-77-0 Order this title from your local bookstore. Use this link to find bookstores in your area. Order from Amazon and Barnes & Noble Amazon paperback $14.95 Amazon ebook $9.99 Barnes & Noble $14.95 |
About the Mogi Franklin Mysteries
Mogi Franklin is a typical eighth-grader–except for the mysterious things that keep happening in his life. And the adventures they lead to as he and his sister, Jennifer, follow Mogi's unique problem-solving skills–along with dangerous clues from history and the world around them–to unearth a treasure of unexpected secrets.
War Train is the tenth novel in the ten-book Mogi Franklin series of Southwest-based mysteries for middle-grade boys and girls.
Also available:
Ghosts of the San Juan, book 1
The Lost Children, book 2
The Secret of La Rosa, book 3
The Hidden River, book 4
The Lake of Fire, book 5
Outlaw, book 6
The Lady in White, book 7
The Captain's Chest, book 8
River of Gold, book 9
Mogi Franklin is a typical eighth-grader–except for the mysterious things that keep happening in his life. And the adventures they lead to as he and his sister, Jennifer, follow Mogi's unique problem-solving skills–along with dangerous clues from history and the world around them–to unearth a treasure of unexpected secrets.
War Train is the tenth novel in the ten-book Mogi Franklin series of Southwest-based mysteries for middle-grade boys and girls.
Also available:
Ghosts of the San Juan, book 1
The Lost Children, book 2
The Secret of La Rosa, book 3
The Hidden River, book 4
The Lake of Fire, book 5
Outlaw, book 6
The Lady in White, book 7
The Captain's Chest, book 8
River of Gold, book 9
About the Book
To Mogi Franklin, it simply seemed like a better summer job than stocking supermarket shelves in Bluff, Utah. But the chance to help with his sister Jennifer’s architectural assessment of the newly refurbished, once-grand-and-glorious hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico, turned out to be much more—the kind of brain-testing mystery he loved and excelled at, along with a heavy serving of adventure and danger.
The mystery was more than seventy-five years old: the robbery of a local bank by two gunmen who’d walked out the door with thick stacks of hundred-dollar bills and simply vanished. Then unexpectedly, the link with the present-day hotel suddenly appeared amid a “ton of junk” from an unknown attic room uncovered in the building’s reconstruction. There among the old clothes, books, papers, and other remnants from the early days of World War II, Mogi finds a clue, then another and then more, leading far back in the hotel’s unique history.
As articles in a sensationalistic local newspaper seem to tie the clues together—and lead as well to false trails and blind alleys—Mogi digs deeper into the fascinating history of the Castañeda Hotel and its storied Harvey House restaurant to unravel the untold tale linking the robbery to a mother’s love for the twin sons she was never able to give enough to.
About the Author
Donald Willerton was raised in a small oil boomtown in the Panhandle of Texas, becoming familiar through family vacations with the northern New Mexico area where he now makes his home.
After earning a degree in physics from Midwestern State University in Texas and a master’s in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of New Mexico, he worked for Los Alamos National Laboratory for almost three decades.
During his career there, Willerton was a supercomputer programmer for a number of years and a manager after that for “way too long,” and also worked on information policy and cyber-security.
He finds focusing on only one thing very difficult among such varied interests as home building, climbing Colorado’s tallest peaks, and rafting the rivers of the Southwest (including the Colorado through Grand Canyon). Willerton also has owned a handyman business for a number of years, rebuilt old cars, and made furniture in his woodshop.
He is a wanderer in both mind and body, fascinated with history and its landscape, varied peoples and their cultures, good mysteries, secrets, and seeking out treasure. Most of all, he loves the outdoors and the places he finds in the Southwest where spirits live and ghosts dance. Weaving it all together to share with readers has been the driving force of Willerton’s writing over the past twenty years.
To Mogi Franklin, it simply seemed like a better summer job than stocking supermarket shelves in Bluff, Utah. But the chance to help with his sister Jennifer’s architectural assessment of the newly refurbished, once-grand-and-glorious hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico, turned out to be much more—the kind of brain-testing mystery he loved and excelled at, along with a heavy serving of adventure and danger.
The mystery was more than seventy-five years old: the robbery of a local bank by two gunmen who’d walked out the door with thick stacks of hundred-dollar bills and simply vanished. Then unexpectedly, the link with the present-day hotel suddenly appeared amid a “ton of junk” from an unknown attic room uncovered in the building’s reconstruction. There among the old clothes, books, papers, and other remnants from the early days of World War II, Mogi finds a clue, then another and then more, leading far back in the hotel’s unique history.
As articles in a sensationalistic local newspaper seem to tie the clues together—and lead as well to false trails and blind alleys—Mogi digs deeper into the fascinating history of the Castañeda Hotel and its storied Harvey House restaurant to unravel the untold tale linking the robbery to a mother’s love for the twin sons she was never able to give enough to.
About the Author
Donald Willerton was raised in a small oil boomtown in the Panhandle of Texas, becoming familiar through family vacations with the northern New Mexico area where he now makes his home.
After earning a degree in physics from Midwestern State University in Texas and a master’s in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of New Mexico, he worked for Los Alamos National Laboratory for almost three decades.
During his career there, Willerton was a supercomputer programmer for a number of years and a manager after that for “way too long,” and also worked on information policy and cyber-security.
He finds focusing on only one thing very difficult among such varied interests as home building, climbing Colorado’s tallest peaks, and rafting the rivers of the Southwest (including the Colorado through Grand Canyon). Willerton also has owned a handyman business for a number of years, rebuilt old cars, and made furniture in his woodshop.
He is a wanderer in both mind and body, fascinated with history and its landscape, varied peoples and their cultures, good mysteries, secrets, and seeking out treasure. Most of all, he loves the outdoors and the places he finds in the Southwest where spirits live and ghosts dance. Weaving it all together to share with readers has been the driving force of Willerton’s writing over the past twenty years.
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