The Green Tent Mystery at Sugar Creek

Three boys from Sugar Creek witness something that doesn't add up: a man digging in the old cemetery at midnight, acting nervous, birds calling out in strange patterns. Bill, Poetry, and Dragonfly aren't the type to let a mystery sit overnight. What starts as a late-night sighting becomes a full-scale investigation, with shoe prints, secret signals, and a whole lot of courage tested in the dark. The boys rally their gang, return to the scene of the strange digging, and find themselves pulled deeper into a puzzle that touches the whole town. Paul Hutchens writes with the kind of easy warmth that made the Sugar Creek series a staple of mid-century children's fiction. The mystery has teeth, the friendship feels real, and there's genuine tension in watching kids face down something they don't fully understand. This is for readers who like their adventures with a side of curiosity and their mysteries solved by kids who refuse to look away.