The Amber Cat

The heroes of Dog Friday are back! Robin Brogan and his best friend, Dan, have caught chicken pox and are suffering through their illness in comfort at Robin's house. When Sun Dance, a boy from next door, happily develops a case of the disease, the chicken-pox club is formed! As the boys convalesce, Robin's mother tells them a strange and wonderful story from her childhood. The summer she was eleven, she and her friends Nick and Charley played on the beach with an unusual girl named Harriet. Who was Harriet? And where had she come from? The answer to the mystery is more amazing than anyone could have imagined.