Norma Jean and the Mystery of the Gypsy Summer

It's the mid 1960's on the central Alberta Prairies. The Nielsen Family's summer cabin becomes a place of historical mystery and farm-kid play. Chicory coffee, Cajun omens, French riddles, and coondogs...all these things and more, arrive the summer Gypsy comes to visit. Norma Jean, her brother Howard, and Gyp, spend the summer in the rustic cabin that is on the lake property, just down the laneway from the big cabin. The kids discover that the family's Cajun roots are alive and well when an ancient riddle is found in a dusty French Bible, hidden in plain view. They find a clue when they row the new Western Red Cedar boat through a reed covered cove and find a message, left by an unknown Cajun uncle. Norma Jean gets her notebook out, once again, and deduces the mystery-clue by clue. Norma Jean and the Mystery of the Gypsy Summer is the second in a series of Middle Grade Canadian Historical Fiction novels.