This is not an ordinary book: it's a BookCrossing book! BookCrossing books are world travelers - they like to have adventures and make new friends...and every once in a while they even write home to say what they've been doing.

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Book 3 in the series of Jenny and Jay mysteries (Pinoy Private Eyes). Illustrations by Remus San Diego.

The Garcia family has moved from California to Massachusetts, and a summer visit to a cottage at the seashore brings new adventures.

Got this from the Kalamansi Books booth at the 2016 HBMF: these books are billed as "action and suspense" - so far, the stories all feature an element of fantasy in addition to the everyday world of the US in the 1990s.

From the Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia via wordnik:

n. In mythology, a sea-horse with two fore feet and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or other fish.
n. [capitalized] In zoology, the typical genus of seahorses of the family Hippocampidæ.
n. In anatomy, a raised curved trace or track on the floor of the lateral ventricle of the brain.

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This story features definition #1. ;)

Journal image from Shutterstock.

Sunday, September 17, 2017: left next to the display of the 2017 Happy Meal books! (Larger photo here.)

Released for bascula's Pirate Day challenge and Secretariat's You're Such an Animal challenge.

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Please take a moment to make a journal entry and let this book's previous readers know that it's safe with you.

How and where did you find the book? What did you think of it? What are you going to do with it next?

It's now your book, for you to do with as you please: keep it, pass it to a friend, or maybe even leave it where someone else can find it!

If you've ever wondered where your books go after they leave your hands, join BookCrossing and you may find out: you'll be able to follow the further adventures of your books as new readers make journal entries - sometimes from surprisingly far-flung locations.

(Think of it like Where's George for books: a little like geocaching or a treasure hunt - you can follow a registered book's journey every time someone makes a new entry. Some BookCrossers even leave books *in* geocaches!)

BookCrossing: making the whole world a library!