The Pirate's Coin

Ruthie and Jack return to the Thorne Miniature Rooms for this third--and riskiest--Sixty-Eight Rooms adventure. Narrator Cassandra Campbell excels with characters ranging from feisty elders to modern kids and historical figures; all sound lively and believable. This time the duo helps a classmate prove that her slave ancestor invented health potions that were later stolen by Chicago mobsters. Also, Jack meets a pirate relative in 1753 Cape Cod. Most thrilling, Ruthie must use her wiles to save Jack, who nearly succumbs to the magic that enables them to travel back in time when they visit the Thorne Rooms. S.G.B. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine