The Chronicles of Stinky Cove · Book 2

Old Goldeneye

The Eagle Everyone Hated

Everyone in Stinky Cove hates the eagle. Piper hated him loudest.

He is the one who came down on a seal pup last winter and dropped him on the rocks, and ten-year-old Piper stood on the beach and vowed to hate him forever, with the whole club cheering. Then she finds his nest in a dying pine above the power line, and watches the villain of Stinky Cove feed his chick, alone, with nobody to trade shifts with.

All summer she keeps a secret notebook, learns his true call, and asks the question nobody wants asked: what if he had a reason? Then a saw crew comes for the tree, the secret comes out, and the town has to decide what it owes a bird it has spent years wishing gone.

Old Goldeneye has heard every word they ever said about him. He has never once argued.

Book Two of The Chronicles of Stinky Cove, a middle grade series for readers ages 8 to 12. Each book stands alone. Every chapter ends with COVE FACTS, true natural history about the animals and coast of Maine.