Remembering the warnings against entering the abandoned gold mines in Pyramid Hill, fourteen-year-old Rudy and his best friend, Barney, keep far away, until Tyler Lewis comes to town with a map and a reckless sense of adventure. Reprint.
The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.