Javelinas are wild animals that live in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, but not only out in wilderness areas. In Tucson, where I live, they are ‘neighbors’ living in the dry washes that thread through the city. They are not pigs, but peccaries, as they would quickly tell you, and live in squadrons of 10 to 20 family members.
In this book a compass found in Arizona sand leads the four young Javelina Cousins—Hank, Holly, Victor and Lulu—on a search for a mysterious treasure. But is the compass really a ‘Magic Compass’ that will help them? Is there really a big pile of gold hidden in the old cabin in the Chuk-son desert forest? Are they safe surrounded by unfriendly desert creatures? And what about the ghost that someone saw at the old cabin years ago? Was it real or not? Grandpa Javier thinks it is all a tall tale. The young javelinas decide to find out and their adventure leads to big surprises.
This chapter book with illustrations throughout, for children ages 8 to 12, is a humorous adventure in search of (maybe) lost treasure. Readers will even read about and see a dancing javelina in a tutu and a fleeing raccoon as the search unfolds! And it ends with a good lesson about what is real gold and what is real treasure.
The paperback is available on Amazon and there is also a Kindle Unlimited edition.
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