RAY, Delia

Seventh grader Ren's world is a mess. Her father moved out shortly before being deployed to Afghanistan, and her mother seems to be running around with another guy. So Ren escapes, if only as far as the nearby "ghost town" of Fortune. She finds refuge in a dilapidated, abandoned school being renovated into a boarding house by quirky octogenarian Hildy Baxter. Ren enjoys poking around the mysterious old building and soon meets Hugh, a younger boy with a penchant for spying. It turns out that Hildy is in search of treasure