Mary Clark

This book contains 200 encrypted love quotes. It's up to you to crack the codes and discover the love messages written by some of the most famous authors. A cryptogram is a type of puzzle that consists of a short piece of coded text in which each letter has been replaced by another. To solve the puzzle, you must find out the original lettering.

Dia, a young girl who lives on an island with her mother, discovers a boy who says his name is La-ha-ta, living in the wild. A neighbor, Leila Payson (Miss Pacer), befriends them. The Old Man of the Island also advises the children. La-ha-ta is sent to a group home, and later, as a runaway, to a detention center. Children show the way in this tale of a quest for freedom. And to be free means to learn how to live sanely in the modern world. Will they find ways to live in society with the right balance of personal freedom and shared consciousness?