Crime by a field

105. Night Landings – Alison Prince

Harrie wakes up in the middle of the night because there’s a plane landing in their area at like 2AM. That’s not prime crop dusting time, no it is not, and that airfield is supposed to be abandoned for the most part. It is a UFO? No. I thought it would be, but I was wrong. It’s smugglers. But Harrie doesn’t know that until she meets Rick – the kid who has run away from home because the smugglers are forcing his mom to help them. Rick doesn’t want the police, he wants 12 year olds to help him, or really just feed him while he hides with Harrie’s pony Taffy. Yes, Harrie has a dog and a pony. Lucky.

Anyway, after at least one child learns the value of telling their elders about shitty smuggling plots in the airfield where no one is supposed to be, a lot of action goes down at once in the airfield with the police, the smugglers, Rick’s mom, Rick who has been kidnapped, that really quiet old man who owns where Taffy the pony stays, the crop duster, Mutty, and fire. A lot of it could have been avoided if Rick hadn’t been so cagey about telling the police smugglers were trying to use his mom for crime, but in the end they all get a trip to Amsterdam anyway. Lucky, again.

 

Pickles has a hay field, but she doesn’t have a pony or crime.

 

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