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Below the Surface

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Allison Finley

  • Below the Surface
  • Below the Surface
    In this high-interest novel for middle grade readers, a 13-year-old boy finds a pocket watch linked to a local legend of a lost treasure

112 pages
Grade Readability: 3
Interest Age: 10 to 14
Lexile: 630
2023
ISBN: 9781459834538

A thirteen-year-old boy finds a pocket watch linked to a local legend about a lost treasure.

Theo is happy spending his summer searching the river for treasure. Even if he mostly just finds empty cans and fishing lures. But when he discovers a pocket watch in the waters beneath a bridge that's said to be haunted, he is sure his luck has changed. Theo soon learns that the pocket watch is linked to a local legend about a ghost and buried treasure. Theo is determined to solve this mystery and posts his progress online. Even after he receives an anonymous threat telling him to leave things alone, Theo continues to dig deeper. He learns that the death of a traveller decades earlier may not have been an accident. And that there’s someone out there who will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried.

"An irresistible narrative voice...An engaging mystery told simply but eloquently."
- Kirkus Reviews

"Engaging...Theo and Syd are likeable and realistic characters that display determination to solve the mystery, often coming up with unusual ways of doing things. Recommended."
- CM: Canadian Review of Materials