Kick the Can

<p>Try turning the clock back two generations in time and experience the sweltering summer of fourteen-year-old Dalan Dawson-the new kid in town-as he meets the new neighborhood kids in the dusty small cotton-farming town of Coolidge Arizona. His boring summer turns very interesting when Dalan first lays eyes on the brown-eyed dark-haired Marie Palermo. She is special from his first shy glimpse of the sassy rich and very smart girl. Over the next few days she leads him into an excitement-filled world of ancient intrigue when she invites him to help her explore a newly-uncovered desert cave that lies beneath the ruins of an ancient Anasazi village. From the action of the neighborhood kids' street game-kick the can-to the ancient spiderweb-filled caverns with their long-forgotten treasures the two teens are caught up in mysteries muggings and murders. Who killed the town's high school hero and who abandoned the three-hundred-year-old Spanish padre and his jewel-encrusted gold cross? Dalan and Marie's story seems too bizarre to be true - or maybe not.</p>