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Author Treacy, Ann, author.

Title The search for the homestead treasure : a mystery / Ann Treacy
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016

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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; PROLOGUE: Goodhue County, Minnesota 6 July 1865; CHAPTER 1 Goodhue County, Minnesota February 1903; CHAPTER 2; CHAPTER 3; CHAPTER 4; CHAPTER 5; CHAPTER 6; CHAPTER 7; CHAPTER 8; CHAPTER 9; CHAPTER 10; CHAPTER 11; CHAPTER 12; CHAPTER 13; CHAPTER 14; CHAPTER 15; CHAPTER 16; CHAPTER 17; CHAPTER 18; CHAPTER 19; CHAPTER 20; CHAPTER 21; CHAPTER 22; CHAPTER 23; CHAPTER 24; CHAPTER 25; CHAPTER 26; AUTHOR'S NOTE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Summary Annotation "Aunt Ida would boil him in the laundry cauldron if she knew where he was." On the long wagon ride to the old homestead, she warned them about the Gypsies they d encountered, and now here he was, ducking into a colorful caravan with Samson, a Gypsy boy he had met ... underwater. And it was the best thing to happen since they d moved from Stillwater to this lonely, hard place to try to reclaim the decrepit family farm. Missing his friends and life as it was before his brother s accident and his mother s silent grief, fourteen-year-old Martin Gunnarsson is trying to hold his family together on the homestead where his ancestors died of diphtheria in 1865. The only one who had survived was his father, a baby found in the arms of his older sister Cora. But somehow rumors of a treasure on the farm survived, too, and when Martin discovers Aunt Cora s journal in a musty trunk in the hayloft, he thinks it might give him a clue. But what exactly is he looking for?Reading Cora's diary in secret, and just as stealthily becoming fast friends with Samson and his Roma family, Martin slowly begins to see his new surroundings, and himself, a little differently. But only when he recognizes that his small sister, for so long a mere pest, holds the true key does Martin start to understand where the real treasure might be found."
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 26, 2016)
Subject Treasure troves -- Fiction
Family secrets -- Fiction
FICTION -- General.
JUVENILE FICTION -- Historical -- United States -- 20th Century.
Family secrets
Treasure troves
SUBJECT Minnesota -- Fiction
Subject Minnesota
Genre/Form Fiction
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781452951508
1452951500
0816699569
9780816699568