Young Adult Fiction Mysteries & Detective Stories
Where Trouble Leads
A Jennifer Bannon Mystery
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2007
- Category
- Mysteries & Detective Stories, Friendship, Thrillers & Suspense
- Recommended Age
- 12 to 15
- Recommended Grade
- 5 to 8
- Recommended Reading age
- 12 to 15
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894917445
- Publish Date
- Apr 2007
- List Price
- $9.95
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Bannon agrees to spend her summer as a camp counsellor at White Pine Camp with her best friend Ambie and her younger sister Leslie. But Jennifers summer in the isolated wilderness on Georgian Bay turns into a roller coaster ride of suspense and danger. Not all is as it appears, and Jennifer is quickly entangled in camp mysteries and the deep secrets of girls assigned to her cabin. There are mysterious after-lights-out activities and strange people who catch Jennifers eye, including a particular male counsellor. When Jennifer discovers somebody lurking in the woods past curfew, she knows that her first responsibility is to the girls in her charge, but she is nevertheless determined to find out what lies beneath the surface. What she discovers in the woods leads her to believe that someone is smuggling drugs and using the camp as a cover-up. As the summer heats up, suspense reaches a boiling point, and Jennifer must race to solve the mysteries of White Pine before tragedy rocks the camp.
About the author
Brenda Chapman grew up in Terrace Bay, Ontario, near the border of Minnesota. She has a BA in English from Lakehead University and a B.Ed from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Brenda taught reading and language arts to children and adults for nearly fifteen years before entering the federal government to work as a writer/editor. She is currently working as a senior communications advisor in Ottawa, Ontario. Chapman began her fiction career with children’s fiction. Running Scared (Napoleon, 2004) was her first YA novel featuring Jennifer Bannon. She then went on to pen three more in the series. Hiding in Hawk’s Creek (2006) was shortlisted for the 2007 Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children. Where Trouble Leads, set in the Georgian Bay wilderness, was published in 2007. Trail of Secrets (2009) was the final instalment in the series. In Winter’s Grip is her first mystery for adults.
Librarian Reviews
Where Trouble Leads
Where Trouble Leads is the third book in the Jennifer Bannon series (the second, Hiding in Hawk’s Creek, was an Our Choice selection). This time, 15-year-old Jennifer and her friend Ambie are off to White Pine as counsellors – with Jennifer’s little sister coming along as a camper. Along with the challenges of a reluctant swimmer and a camper with attitude, Jennifer finds a lot of peculiar things at White Pine – a cook who can’t cook, a nighttime prowler, a disappearing counsellor and a whole lot of trouble.Source: The Canadian Children's Bookcentre. Summer 2007. Vol.30 No.3.
