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// The Fossil Creature Mystery
smallsSynopsis[0] = "<p class='bs'>The sudden theft of the museum's prized fossil begins the disappearance of children in the small rural community of Spoonerville. It is only through the ingenuity of Andrew and Michael that they learn the truth of why these terrible events are happening and what the fossil actual is. But without a way of stopping the fossil and his guarding creatures the world might find itself under the command of these fierce creatures from another world. 96pp.</p>";

// The Key With The Curse
smallsSynopsis[1] = "<p class='bs'>Finding a key leads two brothers into finding a cave that holds a terrible secret. Within the hidden chambers lies a golden sarcophagus. In the coffin is an insane pharaoh suspended in sleep for centuries and who is waiting for his trusted follower to insert the special necklace that will awaken him from sleep. If he regains his powers then the world  will be lost and it is up to Andrew and Michael and their friends to find a way to prevent it from happening. 81pp.</p>";

// The Zombie Of Sapper's Bog
smallsSynopsis[2] = "<p class='bs'>Exploring Sapper's Bog brings Michael and his friends to the strange tree where dozens of shoes and boots have been nailed to its trunk. A sudden movement in the nearby bushes and the appearance of a strange creature drives them screaming home in fright. Their experience becomes important when suddenly there are thefts in their town, and health concerns  over an epidemic downstream, which leads them into searching for what is happened in Sapper's Bog and back at the time of World War 11. The exploration of an underground labyrinth of tunnels and its sudden flooding leaves Michael trapped and alone as the water rises and threaten to drown him. Alone and nearly in total darkness his only hope is that his friends can get help and somehow rescue him before it's too late. Suddenly a cold hand touches his shoulder and he discovers he is not alone. 79pp.</p>";

// The Sorceress's Pet
smallsSynopsis[3] = "<p class='bs'>A strange and unexpected call from a lawyer brings the Small family to the Bahamian islands where an ancestor lost his only daughter in a kidnapping 150 years ago. Michael, Andrew and Meghan have the keys to discover what happened to this young girl whose painting is almost identical to Meghan. But they have to deal with a zombie who under a blood oath  taken so many years ago awakens to find where the young girl has been kept for 150 years when the Sorceress put a curse on him and left the girl, Georgina, under the care of her pet. 91 pp.</p>";

// The Rainbow Warrior
smallsSynopsis[4] = "<p class='bs'>A letter from an elderly aunt brings the Small family to Britain. There the children discover that Dame Hesselford, their mother's great aunt is being haunted. They decide to find out what is happening and why someone is trying to force the old lady from her home. Their search brings them into the mystery of the lost treasure of Queen Boadicea, a British  queen that fought against the Romans. Their attempt at solving the mystery brings them into an underground passage and when their only way out is blocked, it is up to the ingenuity of the children to find a way out. 79 pp.</p>";

// Kermudgie, The Spirit Bear
smallsSynopsis[5] = "<p class='bs'>A letter from a lawyer announcing the death of Archie Steelhead, an old Indian and friend from the adventure of Kermudgie, the Spirit Bear brings the Incredible Smalls two mysteries. The Tonquin, an American ship came to Vancouver Island in 1811 to trade for sea otter pelts but the captain insulted an Indian chief and the Tonquin's crew of 43 men were  attacked. The ship was blown up by a crewmember in a desperate attempt to revenge the slaughter of his fellow crewmen. In three tapes that accompanied the lawyer's letter Archie asked his friends to solve the mystery of the Tonquin and also find the truth about a Broken Arrow, a term used by the military for incidents where an airplane carrying nuclear weapons goes down. Archie found the remains of a B-36 bomber, the Peacemaker, a six engine aircraft that crashed in BC in 1950, which was carrying nuclear weapons. His discovery brings a young woman to his door asking him to help solve the mystery of her missing father, a radiation technician who disappeared on that flight 23 years before. So the Incredible Smalls must find out about both and it takes them to BC in a search for the location of ancient ship and the cargo of a bomber that has been missing for more than 50 years. 131 pp.</p>";

// The Bag Of Bones Mystery
smallsSynopsis[6] = "<p class='bs'>Meghan and Georgina live for riding and when the local doctor invites them to ride two of his prized horses their happiness has no limit. Both 10-year old girls are fierce competitors and their archival Cassie challenges them in the district-jumping contest. But this is only the beginning of a challenge to both Georgina and to Meghan. Lives are at risk  as Meghan finds, escaping her kidnappers in a ride that is worse than anything she has ever experienced and is more challenging than a jumping contest. Riding in darkness in a fierce thunderstorm is almost beyond her ability, but if she doesn't find help people will be lost. 107pp.</p>";

// The Mystery At Baitfisk Lake
smallsSynopsis[7] = "<p class='bs'>Disappointed about not getting into summer riding school Meghan finds herself shipped off to the Emerald Pioneer Camp. There she discovers that the equestrian instructor isn't the 'riding expert' that he appears to be. A sudden fire and its consequence force Meghan out into the darkness when she is found bending over the unconscious riding instructor  who accused her of starting the fire. No one believes her and she has no where to go but into the darkness of the land that surrounds Baitfish Lake and a land that once considered sacred to the Indians. 76 pp.</p>";

// The Monarch's Graveyard
smallsSynopsis[8] = "<p class='bs'>Meghan and Georgina Small bring mystery into their family's life with a visit to a pen pal, Magdalene in Mexico. The family accepts an invitation to visit Mexico and soon the four children are involved in the mysteries of the Monarch butterfly and discover that Magdalene's family has a responsibility handed down to them since the time of Montezuma.  We are taken back into time and the secrets of Montezuma and the destruction of his empire at the hands of Cortes and his conquistadors. We also become involved in a modern mystery where the sacred places where the monarch's return from their visit to America and Canada are being raided by unscrupulous people who have found a way of taking the monarchs that fill the trees and killing them to be shipped to market where the monarch wings are made into pieces of jewelry. Follow the Small children as they solve the mysteries of the burial ground of the Monarchs - the King and his secret messengers. 80 pp.</p>";

// The Snake Charmer's Secret
smallsSynopsis[9] = "<p class='bs'>Andrew Small has won two transatlantic tickets to attend a strange annual ritual held in CooperHill, England called RUNNING The CHEESE. Unknown to him and his brother Michael, it is the start of another adventure that dates back to the time of the Sepoy Mutiny in India in 1857 where a distant relative lost his life with hundreds of other British soldiers.  The relative was stationed at Cawnpore. But before he died he entrusted a letter that would insure his son would inherit his estate and become the next lord of MacDonald Manor. The letter was never delivered; the son and his descendents never had the opportunity of gaining what was rightfully theirs until the Incredible Smalls become involved with the mystery of the Snake Charmer's Secret. 100 pp.</p>";

// Meghan And The Mustang
smallsSynopsis[10] = "<p class='bs'>Meghan once thought going to the Griffen Riding Academy would be a highlight of her life, but when she failed to make the cut she was devastated. The arrival of a letter with the logo of the Spruce Meadow Young Adult Riding School on it with its invitation for Meghan to attend in the last week of August and the first week of September, in the foothills  of Alberta, was unexpected and better than winning a million dollars in a lottery. To be invited to this prestigious equestrian school was recognition that she was considered one of the better riders in the country. How her name came to their attention was a mystery. But mysteries were always part of Meghan's life and those of her brothers and sister. Not only is she forced to achieve skills she never knew she had, but also she discovers that there is a mysterious visitor who comes to the camp uninvited. Those visits might threaten both her new friends and the prized horses in the stables where Canada's best riders are trained. Will she determine what is actually happening? Does the camp hold a secret? 118 pp.</p>";

// The Fenian Messenger
smallsSynopsis[11] = "<p class='bs'>Georgina buys a beautiful figurine at an auction and discovers that it is much older than she thought. Her mother uses her contacts and finds that the figurine of a beautiful Irish Colleen is called The Fenian Messenger. Learn about the attempt of Irish rebels and veterans of the American Civil War as they plan to invade and conquer Canada and hold it for use as a bargaining chip to force Britain to give Ireland its freedom. But Georgina discovered that The Fenian Messenger holds a secret and that secret could ruin the political future of an Irish politician who might soon become the leader in Ireland. 105 pp.</p>";

// The Mystery Of The Lost Centurions
smallsSynopsis[12] = "<p class='bs'>Working in Mexico allows Michael Small an opportunity to uncover ancient tools of man. One he discovers with Victoria Windemere is a startling discovery of a Roman sword, a commander's sword. From the engraving on the sword it points out that the owner was the commander of the Ninth Legion. How that sword got to North America is a mystery. Follow the  journey of a Roman vessel as it heads to Britannia and gets captured by a fierce storm and blown off course. Go with the Smalls to Britain and walk the Roman Roads. Find the clues to one of the greatest mysteries on what happened to the Ninth Legion when 5,000 Roman soldiers, centurions trained in battle disappear, in land that Rome had not yet conquered; a land where the Picts do not accept defeat and fight to save their land from the might of the Roman Empire. 102 pp.</p>";

// Karma, The Eastern Cougar
smallsSynopsis[13] = "<p class='bs'>Karma a regal, queen-like cougar holds within her realm a secret that has mystified aviation historians for 75 years. What happened to a German Princess who dared to challenge the wide Atlantic when flying was in its infancy? Michael and his sister Georgina discover in New Brunswick something that will change the records of who first reached America  from Europe in 1927. Hidden in her territory, Karma holds the secret and it is up to her to reveal it. This mystery relates to the contest that the London Daily Mail ran to encourage the first non stop airplane flight across the Atlantic for 10,000 British pounds. 97 pp.</p>";

// The Knights Of The Golden Circle
smallsSynopsis[14] = "<p class='bs'>Few people know that Canadians played a vital role in the American Civil War. Work with Michael and his friend Chris when they find a can of Double Eagle American gold coins hidden in an old stone bridge near their home. In the can is a short note that brings a part of history to light that few people today know about. The Knights of the Golden Circle  were formed to finance the second rising of the South. Learn about the Civil War and discover how an actor on the stage changed the history of America. 102 pp.</p>";

// Hope, The Missing Homing Pigeon
smallsSynopsis[15] = "<p class='bs'>It produced the loudest sound ever heard in man's recorded history. The eruption in 1883 on the island of Krakatoa was not only heard, but its effects were felt, halfway around the world as tides were affected. Over 36,000 people were killed. Discover a mystery where Michael Small becomes involved in finding why pigeons failed to return to their roost  in a major Homing pigeon event. In that search he also discovered the pigeon's owner, a friend of Michael's cousin, has a mystery dating back to the time Keith Walsh traveled across the Pacific on board the schooner Beagle II. The plea for help takes the Smalls to Australia and then to the islands of the south Pacific in the search for the missing ship, with the clues carried back to Canada by a pigeon called Hope. 106 pp.</p>";

// The Mystery Of The Outlaw's Horse
smallsSynopsis[16] = "<p class='bs'>MMeghan and Georgina befriend an old man shunned as the town drunk. They discover he is an expert on horses. But as they try to help him they discover he has ghosts in his closet. They determine to find out what is haunting the old man and then they get into the past and find the mystery of a bank robbery in a small town called Furnace Cliffs, Kansas.  126 pp.</p>";

// Michael And The Minke Whale
smallsSynopsis[17] = "<p class='bs'>Michael Small received an invitation from Victoria Windemere, an archaeologist he helped in her work in the Yucatan peninsula and the discovery of Roman artefacts in North America before the time of the Aztecs. His new hobby scuba diving lets Dr. Windemere hire him as an apprentice diver on site in the Mediterranean to work on the recovery of two ships  that may date back to the time of the Iron Age. Dive with Michael as he risks his life to save a submersible that has been carried to the bottom. Feel his pain and what he has to suffer to rescue them. He is helped from drowning by a young woman who has her own ghosts. When she tells him about them he helps her unravel a mystery where her grandfather and grandmother were accused of being spies and traitors in World War 11. 165 pp.</p>";

// The Viking's Tooth
smallsSynopsis[18] = "<p class='bs'>Meghan and Georgina befriend a boy, Lars Petersen, in their class and find that he's frustrated, lonely and missing his friends back in Norway. Georgina helps him with his English and Math. She discovers that his hobby relates to the history of the Vikings. Through her initiative she gets one of her friends, who Meghan helped rescue his prized racehorse  in the Bag of Bones Mystery, to help Lars in his search for the truth about the Vikings in America. This friend has a sailing vessel and he allow them to sail his yacht up the east coast in search of likely places where Lars Petersen believes are undiscovered landing sites where the Vikings reached New England. This is an adventure both in the present and in the past as we discover and experience the journey that one Viking longboat took in its exploration from Iceland and the search by a modern Viking descendent to prove how masterful the Vikings were in their exploration of the world in the 10th century. 107 pp.</p>";

// The Mystery Of The Ballerina's Tear
smallsSynopsis[19] = "<p class='bs'>WWhile waiting to attend a summer ballet dance school in Long Island, New York, Georgina and Meghan, two 16-year olds, help their uncle in an archaeological dig on one of America's wonders of the ancient world where a city of 20,000 people rivaled anything in Europe in the 12th century. There they work on beautiful artifacts and discover a love stone,  a tear that joined two people together even in death. A break-in into the tent where the artifacts are stored becomes one of many robberies in the archaeological world. Back at their summer dance school one of the student instructors is wearing a small necklace that holds an Indian artifact and it leads the girls into a ring of thieves who are responsible for many similar robberies of priceless records of human history in America. 128 pp.</p>";

// The Desert Queen
smallsSynopsis[20] = "<p class='bs'>Markeda, the Queen of Sheba, is mentioned in ancient stories, but until very recently there has been no proof that she was anything more than a fable.. Now evidence of her existence has been uncovered from the sands of the desert. Reported to have visited the wisest man in the world, King Solomon, her relationship with him has sparked the interest of historians for thousands of years. Go with Georgina and Meghan Small and their uncle and discover the history of the queen who valued wisdom over anything except her duty to her people. Journey through a sandstorm that stopped Solomon from retrieving his queen and discover an adventure. 96 pp.</p>";

// The Confessions Of A Chinese Priest
smallsSynopsis[21] = "<p class='bs'>A long lost notebook sent to Dorothy Small by the Canadian Embassy identifies her as the only living relative of Davidson Black, an archaeologist who helped discover the Peking Man Bones in the 1920s. This man, a black figure among her relatives has always been a sore point in the family and his disappearance in China as the Japanese invaded has left  the history books to describe him as a crook and the discovery of the Peking Man Bones as an elaborate hoax. Now Meghan has a chance to change history and not only discover what happened to her great, great-grandfather, but find where the bones that were once described as the Greatest Find in the 20th century have been hidden. 118 pp.</p>";

// Journey North To Freedom On The Underground Railroad
smallsSynopsis[22] = "<p class='bs'>A request from one of Meghan Small's friends to find the truth about a man and a woman takes Meghan into a mystery where a runaway slave takes her life in her hands and tries to reach Canada. Learn of the story of Abigail and how her journey brings her into contact with a man who risks his life to take her to safety. Learn about the underground railroad,  and a journey that took escaped slaves up through the northern states to a land where slavery was not permitted. 103 pp.</p>";

// Under The Shadow Of Madame Guillotine
smallsSynopsis[23] = "<p class='bs'>Discover an adventure, a mystery that even today is only coming to light. Back in the time of the French Revolution aristocrats were being murdered and both the queen, Marie Antoinette and her husband, were forced to visit Madame Guillotine, as the starving people of France rebelled over the excesses of the bluebloods and the nobles who used their  wealth for their own amusement while the common people starved. Yet there is a spark of light that bring an artisan, a watchmaker, into the very prison where Marie Antoinette is held while she waits for her execution. Follow this man who loved his queen as he takes the crown jewels and the jewels of other nobles and hides them. Go with Andrew Small with a young woman whose family dates back to the time when her ancestors were caught up in the revolution. Use the clues found in a Bregeut Watch and uncover the wealth of France. 136 pp.</p>";

// Diablo's Silver Mountain
smallsSynopsis[24] = "<p class='bs'>Sixty-two thousand tons of silver was taken from one mine in Bolivia. It cost the lives of eight million slaves that the Spanish used to gain their treasure. For 200 years it was the silver from the Potosi Mine that kept the Monarchy of Spain in wealth and made it the powerhouse of Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. Learn about an English pirate and follow him as he experiences the hospitality of the Spanish Inquisition. Go with Andrew Small in his first summer job with International Minerals where their new plans include development around the area where the greatest silver deposit on earth had created a city that matched any city in Europe as early at the 15th century. When Andrew is kidnapped it is Meghan who discovers a way to rescue him. This is a story that brings you into the strife between Spain and England and the events of the times that caused the Spanish to send their great Armada to stop the heretic queen Elizabeth and bring England under its control and the control of the Pope. 113 pp.</p>";

// Finding The Mongul's Eye
smallsSynopsis[25] = "<p class='bs'>A missing Green Diamond, the Irish Eye, brings Georgina Small to Ireland at the request of the President. Kevin O'Toole. Her help in the Fenian Messenger adventure impressed the politician and he believes she can help his friend find out what happened to the Blue Diamond of Ireland. Georgina discovers that the woman technician who spotted the bogus  diamond has a mystery of her own. Her father Ralph Van Lorn has disappeared and left his daughter on her own in Hong Kong. His message was short: he had a lead on the Mongul's Eye. Finding Amanda Van Lorn's father, and the infamous Blue Diamond (the Mongul's Eye aka the Fiery Blue) brings Georgina and Amanda into the world of diamond thieves and corrupt millionaires who collect diamonds at any price. Follow the trail of the Fiery Blue as it is stolen from the palace of Great Kublai Khan and trace its journey through time. 195 pp.</p>";

// The Missing Avro
smallsSynopsis[26] = "<p class='bs'>One of Canada's greatest achievements was the development of an aviation marvel that was considered 20 years ahead of any of its rivals in military fighters. The Avro Arrow in 1959 had won the hearts of Canadians and made other nations envious. But the day it was first shown to the public in 1957 coincided with Russians' launch of the first satellite  Sputnik. It doomed the Arrow because the military experts believed that it was no longer vital to control the sky because space was the new battlefield between the West and the Soviet countries. The development of the Arrow, the pride of Canada was stopped and the six finished fighters were cut up for scrap. This is a story how the Incredible Smalls use their detective skills to discover the seventh Arrow hidden by patriotic Canadians. It shows us that this plane was extraordinary and its place in Canadian history should be maintained. 105;pp.</p>";

// The Arctic Howler
smallsSynopsis[27] = "<p class='bs'>When Aunt Maud phones, both Georgina and Meghan know it's a prelude to adventure. Soon they find themselves with their aunt out in Sonoma, California, at the home of one of American's most famous writers, Jack London (The Call of the Wild). Their aunt has been hired to find a missing manuscript seen on Jack London's desk just before he died in 1916. Their journey takes them to the House of Happy Walls and London's study where Georgina notices on the walls are pictures of sailing ships, two of which are the Erebus and the Terror, John Franklin's ships that have been missing in the arctic since 1845. The hunt takes both Georgina and Meghan up to the Arctic where they participate in a student exchange with Inuit students from Baker Lake. The mystery deepens. Learn about the Valley of the Moon, and the Hudson Bay Factor who was a fan of Jack London and collected all of his 51 novels. Find out that the model of a ship called The Arctic Howler found in London's study isn't what it appears to be. Hear the cries of Arctic wolves and learn about Inuit spirits and beliefs. Find clues to an ancient mystery under the spectacular northern lights. 102 pp.</p>";

// Tonquin And The Broken Arrow
smallsSynopsis[28] = "<p class='bs'>A letter from a lawyer announcing the death of Archie Steelhead, an old Indian and friend from the adventure of Kermudgie, the Spirit Bear brings the Incredible Smalls two mysteries. The Tonquin, an American ship came to Vancouver Island in 1811 to trade for sea otter pelts but the captain insulted an Indian chief and the Tonquin's crew of 43 men were  attacked. The ship was blown up by a crewmember in a desperate attempt to revenge the slaughter of his fellow crewmen. In three tapes that accompanied the lawyer's letter Archie asked his friends to solve the mystery of the Tonquin and also find the truth about a Broken Arrow, a term used by the military for incidents where an airplane carrying nuclear weapons goes down. Archie found the remains of a B-36 bomber, the Peacemaker, a six engine aircraft that crashed in BC in 1950, which was carrying nuclear weapons. His discovery brings a young woman to his door asking him to help solve the mystery of her missing father, a radiation technician who disappeared on that flight 23 years before. So the Incredible Smalls must find out about both and it takes them to BC in a search for the location of ancient ship and the cargo of a bomber that has been missing for more than 50 years. 131 pp.</p>";

// Graybeard And The Lost Samurai 
smallsSynopsis[29] = "<p class='bs'>A visit to Germany by a Japanese military diplomat in 1945 brings news that is vital to Japan if it wants to win the war. German intelligence has discovered that the Americans have cracked Japan's military codes. So a man who has served Japan since 1905 when Japan fought the Russians, heads home in a long-range sub. An unexpected depth charge attack  by an allied Catalina sub-hunter damages the engines of the submarine and the Captain orders the old warrior to continue his journey east across Africa in the only surviving float plane in hopes of reaching Japan. The plane flies into the interior of Africa before its engines stop and crashes into the jungle. Later we find Georgina and Meghan Small involved in saving the endangered gorillas. In the Congo, face to face with these gentle giants, they not only encounter poachers, they discover a mystery that makes the head of the gorilla project, a Japanese-Canadian, anxious to unravel. Only by helping the gorillas are the secrets of the past revealed. 123pp.</p>";

// Hannibal's Elephant Boy
smallsSynopsis[30] = "<p class='bs'>In the history of military achievements, one man stands out above the rest. The genius of a Carthaginian general, Hannibal Barca, in a battle between the two most powerful nations of the world, Rome and Carthage in 220 BC, has remained unsurpassed to this day. Hannibal invaded Italy and put the Romans on the defensive when he crossed the Pyrenees and the Alps in winter with 50,000 men, cavalry, and his battalion of war elephants. This is a story about an Indian mahout, a boy elephant trainer, and how he helps Hannibal fight for almost 20 years unsupported inside Italy. No Roman army, no Roman legion, ever defeated him even when Hannibal was outnumbered. Hannibal destroyed each army that tried to challenge him. This is a story about Hannibal's passage over the Alps and an effort by Georgina and Meghan Small in locating a missing researcher whose goal in life is to discover the route that Hannibal took. That information,uncovering the passage of the Carthaginian army nearly 2200 years ago,would finally fill in the empty chapters in the history books. 113 pp.</p>";

// The Vision Of A Blind Man
smallsSynopsis[31] = "<p class='bs'>A 1917 Russian coin arrives in the mail at the Small's home. It carries a mystery dating back to the terrible time when the last Tsar of Russia lost his throne and his life when the Bolsheviks imposed Communism on the largest country in the world. Meghan and Georgina befriend a blind man who carries with him a mystery about a girl he adopted when he was escaping from Stalin's secret police in 1935. Yuri Speck, then a young German physicist meets a dying woman and promises to look after the woman's child. She gives him two precious possessions, a Russian coin and a Faberge Egg. Both the coin and the egg hold secrets that can embarrass the Russian government and perhaps restore the Romanov throne. But it is up to the Incredible Smalls to find out the truth and help a blind man with his distant vision. It brings a Soviet bureaucrat, a special assistant to the President of Russia to North America. His role is to ensure that the truth that might be hidden in a missing Faberge Egg is not revealed to the world. But he finds more than he expects when the blind man reveals another mystery. 108 pp.</p>";
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