Finders Keepers

When Mr. Martin hired Tomas, his son's best friend, to clear out the family's old vacant store in downtown San Moreno, Texas, he was just trying to get an unsafe and dirty job done on the cheap. Without even thinking, Mr. Martin tells the twelve-year-old he can keep anything he finds—so long as the job is done by day's end. That agreement backfires when Tomas finds six valuable boxes of old Topps baseball cards in pristine condition in the old Five & Dime. The cards are worth millions, and now Mr. Martin wants them for his own . . . soon everyone in the small south Texas town is either taking sides or trying to get their hands on the treasure.

ROY DEERING is a middle school English teacher and a lifelong baseball fan and card collector. Before becoming a teacher, he spent more than twenty years as a journalist. When Deering isn't writing, you can often find him exploring one of America's national parks. Roy makes his home in Oklahoma.