Winner of the Bram Stoker Award, and the first book in the acclaimed Timmy Quinn series.School is out and summer has begun. For eleven year old Timmy Quinn and his best friend Pete Marshall, the dreary town of Delaware, Ohio becomes a place of magic, hidden treasure and discovery. But on the day they encounter a strange young boy sitting on the bank of Myers Pond--a pond playground rumor says may hide turtles the size of Buicks--everything changes...