{"product_id":"9781452951515","title":"The Search for the Homestead Treasure: A Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAunt Ida would boil him in the laundry cauldron if she knew where he was.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMissing 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175988740336,"sku":"9781452951515","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781452951515_p0.jpg?v=1763848772","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781452951515","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}