Changing of the Guard

"Changing of the Guard" is the Fourth book in a series for young boys, and girls. Where you are taken through 35 years of the life of Five teens and their friends of the Grand Apple Valley Adventure Club and Great, Great, Aunt Nellie McKelly, a former MI-5 Agent and Heiress. These stories are reminiscent of the turn of the century 1900's "Rite of Passage" stories for young teen's. In "Changing of the Guard", the Grand Apple Valley Adventure Club members find themselves dealing with a new Bully in School.
Jake Lake becomes a Police Officer, and our Adventure Club members are going back to the Copper Ore Lodge and once again face a new villain, a ghost from the past. A Father returns from abroad and accepts his son's decision. We find love is in the air, and confessions. A new member is inducted in the Adventure Club, and Deputy Jake faces the sad duty of telling an old school Buddy his Father has been killed.
In our final book of this series, "A Rite of Passage" brings our Grand Apple Valley Adventurers into Adulthood. The Twins run afoul of love smitten girls. A Rave comes to town, A new designer drug kills, and a new teacher isn't what she or he appears to be. The newest member of the Grand Apple Valley Adventure Club struggles with revenge. Oh, yes, let us not forget, girls are inducted into the Grand Apple Valley Club.
Denny finds his past. In a "Rite of Passage" life starts with Birth, to Puberty, to Marriage, and finally Death. The boys grieve the loss of a member. With those that follow in our footsteps, the cycle starts over and over. And that is what the "Grand Apple Valley Adventure Club" is all about.