Message of the Mountain Author:Nordtvedt, Matilda Mesage of the Mountain is a third book in the Secret in the Maple Tree series. In the second book, Song of the Brook, the Johnson family moved from their Minnesota farm to a country home near Bellingham, Washington. As this new adventure opens, the family is about to find out how life in town in the early 1900s differs from life in the country... more ». John Johnson, his sister Hilda, and the other family members are able to experience first hand many of the new inventions of the day.« less