Blue Mountain Trouble

by Martin Mordecai

  Text © 2009 by Martin Mordecai

  Cover art © 2009 by Brian Stauffer

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  Mordecai, Martin.

  Blue Mountain Trouble/by Martin Mordecai. — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: After being saved from a disastrous landslide by an extraordinary goat that blocks their usual way to school, twins Pollyread and Jackson, living with their parents high in the mountains of Jamaica, find the strange goat reappearing at crucial intervals as their day-to-day life is changed by a series of mysterious events involving the return of a local troublemaker and secrets from their family’s past.

  ISBN-13: 978-0-545-04156-0 (alk. paper)

  ISBN-10: 0-545-04156-2 (alk. paper)

  [1. Twins — Fiction. 2. Brothers and sisters — Fiction. 3. Family life — Jamaica — Fiction. 4. Mountain life — Jamaica — Fiction. 5. Jamaica — Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.M78863Bl 2009

  [Fic] — dc22

  2008042648

  Cover design by Lillie Mear

  First edition, April 2009

  Published simultaneously in Canada by Scholastic Canada Ltd.

  e-ISBN 978-0-545-29897-1

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