History Mystery in Philadelphia: With Sammy, Cindy and Friends (The Adventure of a Guide Dog Team)
About
Cheryl’s stories read with as much action, humor and intrigue as an adult book. You will be hooked right from the start when the spirit of Benjamin Franklin visits Sammy requesting his assistance in a mission of national importance.
Will they find Thomas Jefferson’s portable writing desk? What does it hold in the secret compartment?
The author creatively intertwines fact and fiction by using dialogue that makes the reader feel like they are right-there, in the story.
The 4th book in The Adventure of a Guide Dog Team series. New commands, why a guide dog team has to do things a certain way, and there is even a diagram showing the different parts of Sammy’s harness.
Excitement builds, and you’ll be anticipating where next they will go historic Philadelphia.
The adventure begins when Mr. Franklin opens a secret door shows they where to drive into the Old Post Office, through a secret door. Can they find the key? Dark and musty. A skeleton key? What is that?
Wow, Mr. Franklin’s first bifocals. Mr. Franklin tells Cindy to look through them. They will be magical. They will show her where we need to go.
“Excuse me. She’s blind! How is she going to see?” Brodyn says in his exasperated voice.
He must have gotten up on the wrong side of the stall.
Brodyn is feeling sorry for himself because he couldn’t search with his friends because he is too big. A conversation between Brodyn, the carriage horse, and Sammy will encourage discussions of how we are all differently abled. Brodyn feels left out because he is too big to go with the group. Sammy shares a story about Cindy growing several inches one summer, making her taller than all her friends and how it affected her.
Chapter 3 combines the old and the new at The Library Company. Books and Books and more books. A exhibition of Ben FRanklin’s inventions will leave you in awe.
Everyone Gasps in Chapter 4. John Hancock is writing his signature on the walls, on the Liberty Bell and on people.
Mr. Franklin runs in, “John! What are you doing?”
“I’m practicing my signature.”
“You can’t do that.”
“Come on Benny. It’s invisible ink. You invented it!”
And that is when Mr. Hancock joins the group.
Along their route, a spirited fire brigade clangs and races right through their carriage,. “Oof.”
The fireman look back and see Mr. Franklin in the carriage. “Ut-Oh!” This opens the discussion of the Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Franklin talks about Philosophical Hall as Brodyn slowly walks on.
Illustrations and images from historic sites and museums enrich the story.
So many sites. So many people, I mean spirits to meet.
At the Old City Tavern the friends meet Martha and George Washington, Dollie and James Madison, John Adams and young John Quincy Adams. The Madison Museum gave permission to include a rare portrait of young John Quincy.
United States.
Sammy meets a new friend too Volcan, a favored hound of Mr. Washington invites Sammy to join him by the fireplace.He tells Sammy that he has fallen out of favor with Mrs. Washington because he took an entire ham off the table when Cook wasn’t looking. Mr. Washington laughed, but not Mrs. W.
Mr. Washington suggests that the group visit the Graff house, where Thomas Jefferson stayed when writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who will they meet along the way? Will Mr. Jefferson be in his room at the Graff house? Will they find the desk?
Be warned. The ending may make you laugh so hard, you might fall off the chair.
Sammy and I hope that you will let us know how you enjoy the story. Maybe you will have ideas where we can go next! Maybe your town? Your school? We know there is another mystery, just waiting for us!