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Danger: Dynamite! (Cascade Mountain Railroad Mysteries)

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After school each day Billy and his best friend Finn, work on a cannon that they plan to shoot at their school. One day, when their cannon is nearly finished, Billy and Finn get detention for side talking. Sadly they don't get to put on the finishing touches because their two friends, Wes and his brother, get to it first. When Billy and Finn get out of detention they immediately rush to the cannon. When they get there Wes and his brother are already done and ready for action. First they shoot at the school, but it goes straight over the school and they hear a great crash. They go to check out where they think they heard the crash and see a box that states Danger: Explosives! Billy and Finn rush to tell their father, but when they get back the dynamite is gone. Billy's father thinks that they did it to cover up their mess of shooting the school with dirt, but can Billy and Finn prove the whole town wrong and find proof that someone is really trying to destroy Billy's home town with dynamite?

An excellent page-turner for young readers. If you like action, adventure, or mystery, you will probably like this book. I loved the details about the three main characters, but I thought the plot was only ok. The problem was it got boring when the story went on and on about Billy and Finn running around searching for explosives. At the beginning they talked about Alice Ann and Wes, but then the author seemed to forget about them. I wanted to know about what happened to Alice Ann, or Wes, or Finn's family. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed the book, but the lack of information about the secondary characters was disappointing.