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 through the dark of the grave and back into the light. Eleven-year-old Thomas Hammond has always lived next to Leepike Ridge, but he never imagined he might end up lost beneath it! But that's exactly what happens the night Tom's schoolteacher comes to dinner and asks Tom's mother to marry him. Angry and embarrassed, Tom slips out of the house and escapes down a nearby stream on a floating slab of refrigerator packing foam. The night and stars lull Tom to sleep, and when he wakes, he finds he has ridden his foam raft all the way to the ridge itself--where the stream dives underground. Pulled down with it, Tom is flung over rapids and tossed through chasms until finally, miraculously, he comes to rest onshore, sore but alive. What Tom finds under Leepike Ridge--a corpse, a dog, a flashlight, a castaway,... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге LEEPIKE RIDGE (WILSON, N.D.)