Leepike Ridge Author:N. D. Wilson Eleven-year-old Thomas has always lived next to Leepike Ridge. He never imagined he might end up lost beneath it! But that's what happens the night Tom rides a make-shift raft downstream and is dragged underground. What Tom finds under Leepike Ridge -- a corpse, a dog, a flashlight, a castaway, crawdads, four graves, a tomb, and buried treasure ... more »-- will answer questions he hadn't known to ask and change his life forever. Now if only he can find his way home again...
An original mix of Robinson Crusoe, King Solomon's Mines, Tom Sayer, and The Odyssey, N.D. Wilson's first book for young readers is a remarkable adventure, a journey through the dark of the grave and back into the light.« less
I really enjoyed this book. The story was well-plotted and fit together well by the end. I always enjoy how the author fits together the normal and the fantastic.