by Christine E. Collier ยท 2003
ISBN: 1462047467 9781462047468
Category: Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General
Page count: 50
The Forrest family buys a run down house on Apple Orchard Road. Eleven-year-old Ethan is disappointed the house is so old.</p> <p>Ethan invites his best friend, Tanner, for a sleepover and Tanner brings along a metal detector. At the break of dawn, Ethan and Tanner make a discovery in the old shed out back that will change their lives. This amazing treasure includes a letter from the past owner of the house. Elizabeth Patterson writes that she and her husband have hidden things in the house for years!</p> <p>Elizabeths old journal is discovered in the attic. What will Ethan do when he reads that Mr. Patterson made his own time capsule? In an old coffee can he placed a 1958 autographed NY Yankees baseball, wrapped in that days newspaper and placed in the floor joists of the attic. Could this baseball still be up there?</p> <p>The shed will become Ethans bike garage. Who or what is making the huge footprints in the dirt by the shed?</p>