Leepike Ridge
About this book
Eleven-year-old Thomas Hammond is in for the ride of his life when he's swept downstream and underground aboard a crumbling raft of Styrofoam. Washing up on a dark subterranean "beach," his only companions are an impulsive dog named Argus and a corpse, from which he takes a flashlight and an all-too-limited supply of batteries. What Tom finds under Leepike Ridge--a castaway, four graves, a tomb, and buried treasure--will answer questions he hadn't known to ask and change his life forever. Now, if he can only find his way home again. . . .An original mix of Robinson Crusoe, King Solomon's Mines, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Odyssey, N. D. Wilson's first book for young readers is a remarkable adventure, a journey though the dark of the grave and back out into the light.From the Hardcover edition.
Subjects
- adventure and adventurers
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- adventure stories
- buried treasure
- buried treasure, fiction
- caves
- caves, fiction
- children's fiction
- fiction
- juvenile fiction
- missing persons
- missing persons, fiction
- mothers and sons
- mothers and sons, fiction
- mystery
- treasure troves