The Wheatstone Pond

By Robert Westall

Subjects: Young adult fiction, Family life, fiction, Children's stories, English, English Young adult fiction, Children's fiction

Description: When an archaeological dig begins at the Whetstone pond, the pond seems to have ideas of its own. Violence and aggression builds up in the people who work there. The corpse of a baby is found. A motorbike salvaged from the water carries its new owner to a fatal accident.