SuitabookThe Melted Coins
Leslie McFarlane
- Reading
- Read together or check in after the more perilous chapters if that suits your reader. The chapter titles can help you pause and discuss how each clue changes the investigation.
- Themes
- Friendship and helping Chet: Frank and Joe offer to help their friend Chet recover money he may have lost in a summer-school swindle. The plot makes helping a friend part of the boys’ investigation.
- The Seneca relic: A burglary at a Seneca reservation involves the theft of a gold tribal relic called Spoon Mouth; a taciturn Indigenous character is also mentioned. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The story involves a stolen Seneca tribal relic and includes a taciturn Indigenous character. The character’s perspective and the book’s treatment of Seneca people are not established.