Good as Gold
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- 9,99 €
Publisher Description
Fans of Netflix's Outer Banks will devour this contemporary YA novel with a propulsive mystery about one girl's search for her town's legendary sunken treasure in order to clear her family's name and save her future. Some treasures are meant to stay buried . . . Casey's life in Langston has been charmed. She's the queen bee of her prep school, a shoe-in for prom queen, and on her way to the Ivy League come fall. She can't wait to leave the whole town of Langston behind her. That is until her father loses his job and she finds herself on the brink of losing her ticket out of town. The town of Langston is known for its picturesque lake and robust summer tourism. Everyone who lives in town has heard the rumors at some point-- there is a treasure buried deep below the surface that no one has ever been able to find. Few people actually believe in the treasure, and even fewer have searched for it. But some have tried . . . Suddenly an outcast from her popular squad, Casey falls in with a new group of friends who are exactly the opposite of her usual crowd, but are more accepting. Together they devise a plan to find the elusive treasure, in a quest to get the money and save Casey's family and her future. But what they find is much more complicated than just a pile of gold. With thrilling twists and turns and high stakes adventure, fans of Outer Banks will devour this summer adventure.
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Casey Whitecroft, who is Black, used to live alongside the affluent, largely white population of her Langston, Ga., town, until her father's business went belly up and the family had to move into her late grandmother's house. There, she lives among most of Langston's financially imperiled, ethnically diverse residents. Though she's skeptical of any chances to attend Barnard, her dream school, she's started waiting tables at the country club she used to belong to, hoping to beef up her extremely diminished college fund. But when the county threatens to seize their house, Casey is determined to do whatever it takes to keep her family from ending up on the streets. Seeking a solution, she finds allies in her coworkers, who are convinced that the stories of an abandoned mining town submerged in the reservoir that's said to contain hidden treasure is more than a tall tale for tourists. As Casey and her coconspirators dig deeper into the history behind this legend, however, they uncover secrets that some people will do anything to keep buried. By keeping the circumstances behind Langston's founding close to the vest and juxtaposing Casey's previously privileged life with that of her peers on the other side of town, Buford (Kneel) develops a tightly plotted mystery with high stakes and nail-biting tension. Ages 12–up.
