It's turning out to be quite a summer for ten-year-old Sylvia Freeman. Not only has she discovered that the father she thought was long dead is alive, but she's also learned that her best friend, one-hundred-year-old Miz Lula Maye, is her great-grandmother. But the biggest surprise is yet to come when Miz Lula Maye tells Sylvia about secret holes. Secret holes, Miz Lula Maye explains, were places where people used to keep money and important papers...