Robin Kane: The Monster of Wolf Point

    After an earthquake strikes while Robin Kane is at school her science teacher, Mr. Smith, tells the class how earthquakes can disrupt the depth of the ocean and cause elusive and mysterious sea creatures to appear. School is let out early and Robin, her brother Kevin, her best friend Mindy, and Mindy's brother Mike all head to the beach. There they run into an excited Mr. Smith who informs them he has just sighted a strange, Loch Ness type creature in the water. Mr. Smiths story spreads fast and although Robin and her friends believe him the rest of the town is skeptical, especially after a second appearance of the creature turns out to be a dummy constructed with items from Mr. Smiths office. 

    Robin is eager to prove Mr. Smith correct and takes up watching for the creature whenever she can. When Robin and Mindy's families arrange a joint outing to Rancho Lucia, a ranch owned by Mindy's father, Robin takes Mindy and her younger sister, Amy, on a horseback ride to a cliff overlooking the bay where they can look for the creature. Robin and Mindy leave Amy with the horses while they go take up a watch and are ecstatic when they both see the sea creature. 

    Soon after they hear Amy scream and as they run to her aid they fall through the ground into an underground cavern. They remain there for a worrisome hour until their fathers come to rescue them. Then they finally find out the reason for Amy's scream; two trouble maker boys, Frank and Art, stole two of the horses. This convinces everyone the Frank and Art were responsible for the dummy creature and stole the horses to make a quick getaway (even tho no one suspects them and there's no legal trouble they could get in for making the dummy). 

    Robin, Mindy, Kevin, and Michael sneak out in the night to hunt for Frank and Art and they find them in the same cave from the first Robin Kane book (the one Robin and Mindy hide from El Gato in). They barricade the boys in the cave and get the sheriff. 

    The next day the foursome head to the bay with a movie camera and raft and capture moving pictures of the creature thus proving Mr. Smith right.

- A big problem I have with Robin Kane books is how things are explained with dialogue. When being told some of Robin's experiences in the other books it's given as dialogue instead of a narrator telling the reader. This makes it super awkward because the people it's being explained to already know because they were apart of it.

- I like how the girls' father come to their rescue. I thought it was sweet.

- I really do not understand why Frank and Art try to skip town when they were not in any trouble. Stealing the horses is what gets them in trouble and they end up in juvie for it.

- Mr. Smith quiting his job to "bring sanity back to the town" makes no sense at all and just seems over-dramatic.

    Overall this book was alright. When I read the Robin Kane series the first time I recall this being my favorite book.