The Explorers (Tales from Whitaker Woods)

When the Edwards family moves to forty acres of Pennsylvania woods, Daddy has one rule: Explore everything.Eleven-year-old Sam is the first to notice the carvings, initials and dates scratched into ancient oaks by someone who was here over a hundred and fifty years ago. Then three-year-old Charlie finds what no one else saw: a cipher hidden in the walls of the old house, marking seven locations deep in the woods.Who left the carvings? What are the seven locations? And what did he build out there among the trees, something he called a Cathedral?But the woods hold more secrets than one family can uncover in a single summer.The Explorers is the first book in Tales from Whitaker Woods, a read-aloud adventure series that brings the Westminster Shorter Catechism to life, through backyard expeditions, missionary dreams, and the real questions children ask. Read more