Night of the Red Hunter

A children's Sci-if mystery horror. Runaway children Peter and Maggie meet when Maggie tries to steal some chocolate bars and it doesn't go according to plan. Their adventure continues when they fall into a grave at a farm cemetery. When they wake up they are house of the Piper family. Things get stranger and it seems that an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth and the children are the only ones who can stop it. Ish Murdie, a villainous character, almost causes doomsday. The Pipers run away and the children are left to deal with Mimrod.