Aubrey Forrest Fletcher: Pines Lake - The Treasure of North Island - A Centennial Adventure, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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At Pines Lake, summer is supposed to mean bicycles, baseball, swimming, and long days with Jimmy, Ollie, Myles, and Rusty. Then a mud-darkened gun with a strange mark opens a trail through the neighborhood the boys thought they knew better than anyone else in town.

What starts as a puzzle soon tests every rule the adults around them have taught them about danger, loyalty, and belonging at the lake.

Old road names, buried watercourses, ironwork, orchard ruins, local archives, and marks left near an abandoned mine begin pointing toward North Island. Each clue draws the friends deeper into a story involving a failed treasure hunt, a missing packet of papers, and British gold that may have crossed New Jersey during the Revolutionary War. Their different talents keep the search alive: Jimmy presses every uncertainty toward an answer, Ollie reads weather and water, Rusty builds machines to reach where they cannot, Myles meets danger with jokes and reckless courage, and the narrator records the evidence on baseball scorecards while trying not to lose his place on the field.

But finding history is not the same as owning it. The boys must decide what may be touched, what should remain in the ground, and when an exciting secret has become too dangerous to keep. As rumors spread and older boys join the hunt for the wrong reasons, a fire in Pancake Hollow turns their summer adventure into a test of friendship, honesty, courage, and responsibility.

Told by the boy who grew up to keep the record, Pines Lake - The Treasure of North Island - A Centennial Adventure is a literary upper middle grade mystery about a lake community layered with hidden roads, remembered names, and unfinished stories. Blending bikes, boats, baseball, codes, local history, and a search for treasure, it follows five friends as they learn that the past is not a prize to seize. It is evidence to protect, a story to tell truthfully, and a place to return with care.