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When I was in Catholic grade school, I remember that all my textbooks seemed to be centered on God. We had science books that had titles like Knowing God’s World, or something like that, and I, of course, especially remember the readers we had. Researching it now, I believe what I was reading back then were called the Cathedral Basic Readers, and from what I can tell, there were at least 32 of them written by a Catholic priest named Fr. John A. O’Brien. These helped shape my worldview, even...

Summer camp has always been a place for pranks, but the campers at Camp Kitawnee on Black Mountain are seeing increasingly dangerous incidents which are quickly shattering the innocence of their camp experience. And so begins the story that is Lost on Black Mountain , the third book in the Flaugherty Twins Mysteries series. In the middle of the Flaugherty twins’ investigation into the mysterious happenings at camp, Pat is involved in a boating accident and ends up Lost on Black Mountain ....

Summer camp is a wonderful time to just sit back and relax and enjoy nature. Roasting marshmallow for s’mores around the campfire, telling ghost stories, hikes through nature, and quiet afternoons out on the lake. Such is the idyllic setting for the third installment of the Flaugherty Twins Mysteries, Lost on Black Mountain . One afternoon, Pat finds himself out in the woods with the Ranger Margo Hernandez. (I won’t do a spoiler by telling you why they are there.) As he sits down on a rock to...