Used THE MYSTERY OF MISTY

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This is a delightful fantasy set in the present in and around a suburban Pennsylvania farm-house in which a college professor, his artist/teacher wife, and their three children live. They rent it from elderly Mrs. Rumel. They love it and their country pets ... Sapphire, a spoiled duck and Lipper, a people-loving chicken. But Mrs. Rumel has run into a spate of ill health and must now sell the house to pay her rising medical bills. Mrs. Rumel knows that the family belongs in the farmhouse, because her grandmother's ghost tells her so. The ghost has an affinity for the middle child, adolescent Lucy, whose name and love of ducks parallels her own. Unknown to their parents, the children have planned multiple hijinks to thwart any sale. Nonetheless, a rich couple does decide to purchase the house and renovate it extensively for their summer home. Lucy's family will now face a single family dwelling market that it can not afford, and an apartment will mean that the beloved pets will have to be left behind to forage for themselves and probably die. By chance, the children hear about the Silvering Treasure, and the race is on to find it on the property and use it to purchase the property before the buyers sign closing papers on the house. Helping the family, through clues given by mindspeak to present day Lucy, is a mysterious duck with a fiery copperred head, blue beak and golden eyes. Bluebill is a time-traveler from the 1860's, the pet of Mrs. Rumel's grandmother. He returns up into the star filled night only when all is properly resolved and it is certain that Lucy's family will remain in the house. Lucy has renamed Bluebill Misty ... short for mysterious. Carol Kopec's bucolic setting isfully pictured and captivating. Her human characters are three-dimensional, and her feathered friends are characters with specific personalities, distinctive appearances, antics and avian fondness towards kind-hearted humans.

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