Bøger af Susan Yaruta-Young

Saturday, November 10, 1984. Max and Charles are off on a "guys' getaway" with their stepfather, Fred. The trip takes them to Kent and Queen Anne's counties, located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.It's Veterans Day Weekend, and Fred has planned this trip around history to show the boys a few important sites from Colonial times and the Civil War era. Included in the "getaway package" is meeting old and new friends. And a very important reason for the trip is to find a new home for Miss Starry Eyes, a wild Canada goose who was rescued and raised by their grandparents. During the weekend, some plans will unfold as Fred hoped, but many new people, twists and turns, fill this Saturday-into-Sunday morning with unexpected adventures.

The adventure begins at sunrise when Charles suggests to older brother Max: breakfast at their grandparents' house might be a great fill-up. It's only a dash away through the pony pasture. All is well until a troubling discovery is made. When Grandpa and the boys feed the fish, they find that Grandpa's pet trout is missing. What happened?

When Fred takes stepsons Max and Charles to Elliott Island on Maryland's Eastern Shore for a day of crabbing, none of them are expecting to encounter anything out of the ordinary. But all bets are off when you drive out that long narrow road to the End of the World. An old woman gives them a giant snapping turtle to sell, and their day gets weird. And when they stumble across the same woman's gravestone?with her death date inscribed, but hidden in the ground?their trip becomes stranger still. As every answer leads to more questions, what starts as a "Boys' Day Out" becomes an adventure that will not soon be forgotten.