The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK® Quotes

“Here’s the way it works,” he said. “I’m using the rudder like a single stern paddle. Lots of boats in the old days used to be run like that. If the paddle’s properly shaped, it will do a good job of propelling a boat. They call a long stern oar a sweep, and it’s good enough so that it’s still used on heavy barges in lots of places around the world.” “Won’t it just push the stern around from one side to the other?” Sandy asked. “Not if you do it carefully,” Jerry replied. “What I’m doing is this: I ease the rudder to one side, slowly, so as not to row with it. Then I give it a strong pull toward me—like this—and then I shove it halfway back.” As he spoke, he hauled on the rudder, and the stern of the sloop swung around a bit, but the return motion of the rudder stopped the swinging action and steadied the sloop on her course. Sandy saw small ripples form a wake behind the boat as some forward motion was gained. As Jerry repeated the gentling, pulling and returning”
― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels

“Jerry’s lantern-jawed face”
― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels

“Railroad cars! Is that what they are? They look like Tootsie Toys from here.”
― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels

“Was there gold on Sun Mountain?” Sandy asked. Joe shook his head. “No, not gold. Silver. That whole mountain was practically made of silver. You’ve heard of Virginia City?” “Sure!” Sandy cried. “The Comstock Lode!” “It was right on top of Sun Mountain. It was discovered in 1859. A vein of pure silver nearly sixty feet wide. Before it was worked out, it was worth nearly three quarters of a billion dollars.”
― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels

“There’s only one explanation,” Sandy said as he scrambled back to join Mike. “The slide was covering the mouth of this cave. When the rocks started to give way, the entrance suddenly opened up and we fell in.” “And all that stuff passed right over our heads,” Mike said. “Looks like that’s it.” The two boys stared at each other in silence. “You know,” Sandy said quietly, “we’re a couple of pretty lucky guys.” “I’ll say! If we had been any other place when the slide started to go....” “We’d be down there at the bottom under a few hundred tons of rock,” Sandy finished.”
― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels

“Mike, who always took a long time to wake up in the morning, ignored this remark. Leaning back comfortably, he began to chew thoughtfully on a blade of grass. “You know,” he said, “I read a book once that said that all the great thinkers of the world like to sleep late. Brainy fellows like us,” he explained, “just seem to need more rest. Besides,” he reflected, “we do most of our heavy thinking at night.” “So that explains it,” his father remarked. “Explains what?” “That noise that comes out of your sleeping bag every night.” “You thought I was snoring?” Mike seemed surprised. “Yes,” Mr. Cook admitted. “I’m afraid I did.” Mike laughed disdainfully. “If you only knew the problems I have to solve! Night after night I turn them over in my mind, searching for the right answer....” He paused and looked at them seriously. “I tell you, those problems are heavy. When I turn them over they make a big racket. That must be what you keep hearing, Dad,”
― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels

“Hank says he wants to take us up in the hills for a cougar hunt.”
― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels

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― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels

“The fleeing man stumbled. He threw up his arms and reeled to the edge of the narrow rock bridge. Almost, he recovered his balance… Then he fell, turning over and over slowly, for a thousand miles, it seemed. Kitty and her mother screamed together. “It’s better so,” White murmured at last as he put his glasses back in their case. “A clean death. Cavanaugh made that fourth touchdown after all.”
― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels

“He was in a real spot! If he tried to cross the bare top of the natural bridge that arched over the hole in Window Rock, he would make an ideal target, silhouetted against the moon. (Thank all the little Navajo gods and demons that Cavanaugh’s right eye must be swollen shut from the beating Ralph had given him. He was in no condition to shoot accurately even if he disregarded Pepper’s warning.) Sandy”
― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels

“That’s what’s called serendipity,” he said, chuckling. “You remember the three Princes of Serendip in the fairy story: on their travels they always found things they weren’t looking for. Congratulations, Sandy. You have the makings of a real wildcatter.”
― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels

“Several times he stopped and listened intently. Off to his right, hidden in the underbrush that choked the crater, he thought he heard some large animal moving. A deer, probably, he tried to reassure himself, although he remembered that one of the other crewmen had had a nasty brush with a bobcat several days previously.”
― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels

“took charge of a transit, plane table and Brunton compass.”
― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels

“In searching for oil, or even for uranium under a heavy overburden of rock,” Cavanaugh went on, “you need at least the simplest scintillation counter because it is sixty times as sensitive as a one-tube Geiger. Better yet is the really professional counter—as much as 600 times more sensitive than the best Geiger built. Best of all is my multiple scintillator—100 times more sensitive than the best single tube. Even you won’t disagree with that, will you, Mr. Donovan?”
― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels

“The morning after Cavanaugh’s unwelcome visit, Hall, Donovan, Salmon and the boys set out on their 150-mile drive south to the town of Window Rock. The jeep wallowed and bounced as usual over the dusty trail to Shiprock. There Ralph turned right onto US 666, pushed the accelerator toward the floor board and relaxed.”
― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels

“the modern high school. Farmington would never become a ghost town. It was building solidly for the future.”
― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels

“This sure isn’t my idea of a boom town!” Sandy grumbled as he and Quiz got off the eastbound Greyhound at Farmington, New Mexico, dropped their dusty bags and stood watching the early morning bustle on the little town’s wide streets.”
― Roger Barlow, The Sandy Steele Mystery MEGAPACK®: 6 Young Adult Novels