Mystery of the Night Raiders

Monster Hunters #1

by Nancy Garden

Brian's trip to his grandparents' farm keeps him from the neighborhood film festival featuring his favorite sleuth, Sherlock Holmes. But Brian soon discovers a mystery of his own on the farm, and with his new friends, Mumbles and Darcy, he sets out find out why Grandpop's cattle are dying mysteriously.

167 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

A versatile writer, Nancy Garden has published books for children as well as for teens, nonfiction as well as fiction. But her novel Annie on My Mind, the story of two high school girls who fall in love with each other, has brought her more attention than she wanted when it was burned in front of the Kansas City School Board building in 1993 and banned from school library shelves in Olathe, Kansas, as well as other school districts. A group of high school students and their parents in Olathe had to sue the school board in federal district court in order to get the book back on the library shelves. Today the book is as controversial as ever, in spite of its being viewed by many as one of the most important books written for teens in the past forty years. In 2003 the American Library Association gave the Margaret A. Edwards Award to Nancy Garden for lifetime achievement.

In Remembrance: Nancy Garden

Reviews

[Jen]

This book and the entire series got really bad reviews. Decided not to read.