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Quite enjoyable A fun mystery set in the background of strikes and protests on the San Francisco riverfront I should check out the rest of the series Quite a good bargain from a little free library Good teen middle grade read 295 Howard Pease was one of my father s favorite authors I read many of his books as a boy and enjoyed them too Pease felt that books for younger adults readers should not be dumbed down He also wanted his books to be full of excitement and adventure and to tell of exotic places Foghorns is set on the San Francisco waterfront in the 1930s Eighteen year old Greg Richards wants to go to sea to earn money for college But a longshoreman s strike is keeping the freighters in port and no shipboard jobs are to be had When a stranger offers to sell Greg a seaman s papers and an assignment on a freighter he takes it But the stranger s offer is not well meaning and somebody wants to keep the steamer Araby from leaving port What adventures and danger will follow Who on the ship is honest and who can t be trusted The author even throws in a secret code used by the elements who want sabotage the Araby s parent company 2I could not solve the code but other readers might Even though this book was written nearly ninety years ago it has much to offer younger and older readers 295

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Howard Pease was an American writer of adventure stories from Stockton.

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California Most of his stories revolved around a young protagonist Joseph Todhunter Tod Moran who shipped out on tramp freighters during the interwar years. Foghorns fayetteville ar Pease received two literary awards during his lifetime In 1944 he received the California Commonwealth Book Award for his novel Thunderbolt House reprinted by Scholastic as Mystery at Thunderbolt House published that year and in 1946 he was awarded the Childrens Book Award from the Childrens Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education for a book that deals realistically with problems in the childs world for his novel Heart of Danger Howard Pease was an American writer of adventure stories from Stockton California Most of his stories revolved around a young protagonist Joseph Todhunter Tod Moran who shipped out on tramp freighters during the interwar years. Foghorn brewing Pease received two literary awards during his lifetime In 1944 he received the California Commonwealth Book Award for his novel Thunderbolt House reprinted by Scholastic as Mystery at Thunderbolt House published that year and in 1946 he was awarded the Children s Book Award from the Children s Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education for a book that deals realistically with problems in the child s world for his novel Heart of Danger site_link Subtitled A Story of the San Fransisco Waterfront Originaly published 1937. Foghorns kindle store The seventh in the Tod Morna Mysteries Series this is structurally similar to all of the others in theme and style but practically different in that the Araby never leaves port Foghorns.