Hawkeye Hart Sees Through It

Milo Hart is ten, sharp as a tack, and in Brookside he is known as Hawkeye Hart. In a river town full of rattling bridges, old brick buildings, muddy sidewalks, and small problems that grow fast, Milo has a habit of noticing what everyone else rushes past. A torn library page, a strange phone delay, a flipped photo, and a missing ice cream voucher all look simple at first, but each one hides a clue waiting for the right pair of eyes. With his friend Tessa Ruiz ready to stand up when Rex Hanlon and the Badgers try to push kids around, Milo takes on mysteries that happen in classrooms, on playgrounds, at the river steps, and across the busy corners of Brookside. A "super hearing" bet turns out to be less magical than Rex claims, a coin flip streak depends on more than luck, and a trail of gum wrappers leads somewhere very different from where it seems to point. Every case is short, clever, and fair, built on the kind of clues readers can spot too: a backward EXIT sign, a slippery floor mark, a clean set of river steps, a hidden signal, or one detail in a story that does not quite fit. In Brookside, the mysteries may be small, but the truth still matters, and Hawkeye Hart never stops looking until the answer clicks into place.

Pagina's: 97, Paperback, Independently published