Leepike Ridge
By N.D. Wilson
(Random House Books for Young Readers, Hardcover, 9780375838736, 240pp.)
Publication Date: May 22, 2007
Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Paperback (July 22, 2008), Library Binding (May 22, 2007)
Categories: Action & Adventure - General
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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.
N. D. Wilson is a Fellow of Literature at New Saint Andrews College, where he teaches classical rhetoric to freshmen. He is also the managing editor for Credenda/Agenda magazine, a small Trinitarian cultural journal. He married a girl stolen from the ocean, and the two of them now live in Idaho with their four children.
Starred review, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, July/August 2007:
"This is a ripping good adventure yarn . . . [T]he perfect remedy for any summer that's been disappointingly short on thrills."
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