Children of the Bones Author:Jim Green A mysterious and strange visitor comes to Cabin Twelve and tells the boys a harrowing ghost story. But he's not even supposed to be here. He's not a part of the "outdoor education retreat." Who is this frightening character then, and why does he tell his story to the boys in Cabin Twelve? — Thanks to some teachers and a number of parents, each ye... more »ar the Fountain Lakes Elementary School's eighth-grade classes go on a week's retreat, so that the kids can have a true-to-life educational experience before they graduate. This year the lead teacher has discovered a brand new campground in Arizona's high country. But the campers are not aware that pre-Columbian Native Americans lived and thrived in the very area where now Camp Sinagua Ranchero lies. And no one, not even historians, can agree on why these early Americans mysteriously disappeared.
Add to the strange storyteller, some interesting bones found by the eighth-graders on a nature hike, and the disappearance of all the campers save ten boys in Cabin Twelve, and the result is a story of adventure and young survival as these ten boys experience the challenges of ages past.« less