The Murphy Five and the Guardian in the Woods
The Murphy Five and the Guardian in the Woods is a story about five brothers and sisters who move from a large city in California to Texas when their mother takes a job at a resort in the Hill Country and their father becomes a Texas Ranger. The whole family has many exciting adventures as they get used to their new environment. The country lifestyle is more liberating for the kids than city living had been and they take full advantage of it.
““…I got up and looked out of the window and saw a dog sitting in our driveway. He was howling. After I came to the window, he stopped. I got scared and ran back to bed and got under the covers.”
“Maybe it was a wolf. They have them here, don’t they?” inquired Alexa.
“They have coyotes,” replied Justin.””
As their mother settles into her new job and their father’s new job only gets lets him come home one weekend a month, the children are left to take care of themselves for the most part. Sometimes they make good decisions, but most of the time, they don’t. The trouble they get into is mostly just children’s hi-jinks, but one or two times they get into some bad situations that could have caused them harm. But, all in all, they have a lot of fun as they go through this new chapter of their lives.
In one of their adventures, they meet an Indian chief named Tate Owen, when they inadvertently camp on the Chief’s Indian land. He tells them amazing stories of Indian folklore in front of a campfire as he shares the makings for s’mores. Mr. Owen is building an Indian village, one teepee at a time, to show people how the Indians lived in days gone by. He meets them while they are on a camping trip and he invites the kids to camp on his land whenever they want.
They also have an unknown protector that is revealed at the end of the book. Suffice it to say that this protector watches out for them throughout the whole book and is instrumental in helping them out of many of the scrapes they get into.
Peri Weaks lives near Dallas with her husband and son. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma as a business major and became an accountant for many years. Then she decided to follow her dream and become a writer.
““…I got up and looked out of the window and saw a dog sitting in our driveway. He was howling. After I came to the window, he stopped. I got scared and ran back to bed and got under the covers.”
“Maybe it was a wolf. They have them here, don’t they?” inquired Alexa.
“They have coyotes,” replied Justin.””
As their mother settles into her new job and their father’s new job only gets lets him come home one weekend a month, the children are left to take care of themselves for the most part. Sometimes they make good decisions, but most of the time, they don’t. The trouble they get into is mostly just children’s hi-jinks, but one or two times they get into some bad situations that could have caused them harm. But, all in all, they have a lot of fun as they go through this new chapter of their lives.
In one of their adventures, they meet an Indian chief named Tate Owen, when they inadvertently camp on the Chief’s Indian land. He tells them amazing stories of Indian folklore in front of a campfire as he shares the makings for s’mores. Mr. Owen is building an Indian village, one teepee at a time, to show people how the Indians lived in days gone by. He meets them while they are on a camping trip and he invites the kids to camp on his land whenever they want.
They also have an unknown protector that is revealed at the end of the book. Suffice it to say that this protector watches out for them throughout the whole book and is instrumental in helping them out of many of the scrapes they get into.
Peri Weaks lives near Dallas with her husband and son. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma as a business major and became an accountant for many years. Then she decided to follow her dream and become a writer.