The Happy Hollisters and the Mystery of the Golden Witch, Book 30

By: Jerry West

Narrated by: Sarah Breidenbach

The Happy Hollisters are excited about the upcoming autumn season, with plans for pumpkin decorating, bobbing for apples, and the Shoreham Halloween parade. They decide to host a party for their friends and Farmer Johnson offers the use of his barn for the festivities in exchange for the children’s help selling pumpkins at his farm stand. The mysteries begin almost right away, when the horn on Farmer Johnson's old Model T Ford begins to blow...when no one is in the car! Pete and Pam spy a girl in a red jacket running away from the barn, but she escapes into the woods before they can ask who she is.

On the chase, they stumble on an ancient gravestone behind the barn - upon which is written a cryptic message about a hidden treasure. Then a stranger asks for the children’s help finding a weathervane in the shape of a golden witch. Could all of these mysteries be related, and will they be solved before they interfere with the children’s Halloween festivities?

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Happy Hollisters audio

My 5yo son loves the Happy Hollisters books on audio and has listened to all of them on his own. I find the narrator difficult to listen to and so haven’t listened to the story myself, but my son can’t wait for new ones to come available, and it’s a relief to know that he’s listening to good, clean stories from the 50s!

Not one I would pick

Good wholesome book, but the reader was so bad it was hard to concentrate on the story.