A hole in the world

By Sid Hite

Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Grief, Farm life, fiction, Farm life, Children's fiction, Virginia, fiction, Death, Grief, fiction, Interpersonal relations, Death, fiction

Description: Fifteen-year-old Paul Shackleford experiences an eye-opening and transformative summer living and working on the central Virginia farm belonging to a distant relative, where everyone seems to be haunted by the death of a much-loved and admired farmhand the year before. Paul Shackleford has gotten himself into trouble, and now heb2ss being sent away to a relativeb2ss farm in the middle of nowhere. He thinks heb2ss in for the worst summer of his life - until he discovers a haunting mystery and a ghost with a familiar face. With the help of a dog named Einstein and a beautiful girl named Rebecca, Paul unearths the truth behind the hole in this isolated world. What he learns will change him forever.