Backstage Fright

Join the stars of the Frightmares thrillers, Rosie and Kayo, as they take on bright lights and dark deeds to uncover the art thief responsible for stealing the most valuable painting of the Oakwood Art Museum. Rosie’s dog is a star! Rosie Saunders and Kayo Benton are thrilled when their new friend Lyle Guthrie recommends Bone Breath the dog for a carry-on part in Pirate’s Plunder at the Oakwood Community Theater. The girls are so busy working backstage that they nearly forget about the scandal at the Oakwood Art Museum—the museum’s most valuable painting is a forgery! But when Rosie finds a Van Gogh painting in the theater’s storeroom, she knows the thief is too close for comfort. Is the painting real or is it another fake? Someone is willing to do anything to conceal the crime…and if they don’t act quickly, Rosie, Kayo, and Lyle will become the next victims!

PEG KEHRET's popular novels for young people are regularly nominated for state awards. She has received the Young Hoosier Award, the Golden Sower Award, the Iowa Children's Choice Award, the Celebrate Literacy Award, the Sequoyah Award, the Land of Enchantment Award, the Maud Hart Lovelace Award, and the Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award. She lives with her husband, Carl, and their animal friends in Washington State, where she is a volunteer at the Humane Society and SPCA. Her two grown children and four grandchildren live in Washington, too. Peg's Minstrel titles include Nightmare Mountain: Sisters, Long Ago; Cages; Terror at the Zoo; Horror at the Haunted House; and the Frightmares series.