The Secrets of Stone Creek

Briana McDonald

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN:
  9781534498280
• Print ISBN:
  9781534498273

The Hardy Boys meets We Dream of Space in this tender middle grade adventure about a girl with the heart of an explorer who discovers more than she bargained for with her two brothers over the course of one fateful week. Finley Walsh and her best friend Sophie were adventurers, like the ones they grew up reading about in 100 of the World's Greatest Female Adventurers —that is, until Sophie found new friends. Between losing her best friend and feeling overlooked by her mother and older brother, Finley is determined to prove herself by becoming a great adventurer like the ones in her book. The perfect opportunity comes when she and her brothers stay with an estranged relative in Stone Creek, a remote tourist town dedicated to the legend of a local adventurer who went missing two decades before. Finley knows that if she finds the missing woman, she'll not only be able to prove herself to Sophie and her family, but also be able to meet a real, live adventurer just like her.Finley convinces her brothers to join her in her rescue mission. But as they delve deeper into Stone Creek's painful past, it becomes harder to know who they can trust—including each other—and they realize some places are better left unexplored.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number One: Junko Tabei
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Two: Anne Bonny
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Three: Amelia Earhart
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Four: Ann Bancroft
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Five: Joan of Arc
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Six: Annie Smith Peck
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Seven: Sunita Williams
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Eight: Josephine Baker
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Nine: Emma “Grandma” Gatewood
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Ten: Julie d’Aubigny
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Eleven: Sophia Danenberg
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Twelve: Valentina Tereshkova
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Thirteen: Maud West
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Fourteen: Elizabeth Blackwell
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Fifteen: Bessie Stringfield
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Sixteen: Louise Arner Boyd
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Seventeen: Barbara Hillary
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Eighteen: Liv Arnesen
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Nineteen: Premlata Agrawal
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Twenty: Sylvia Earle
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Twenty-One: Freya Stark
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Twenty-Two: Bhakti Sharma
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Twenty-Three: Edith “Jackie” Ronne
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Twenty-Four: Cindy Lee Van Dover
• Greatest Female Adventurer Number Twenty-Five: Lizzie Carr
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright