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“Don’t dare move, young fool. If you do fifty-thousand volts of raw energy will cook you ’til you look like nothing more than a burnt English muffin…” *** Fourteen-year-old Ruth Waterman summers on her family’s island in Maine. A bright and spirited girl, she is oft neglected by her wealthy globetrotting parents. *** In a small town, further up the coast, ten-year-old Hawkins has run away to escape the beatings of his drunken father. Finding his way to Waterman’s Island he makes a home aboard a wrecked fishing boat. When Ruth discovers the trespassing boy she tries to bully him off her island. Though from very different backgrounds the two develop a friendship during a challenge that Ruth presents so that Hawkins might prove himself worthy to claim the derelict boat for his own. The boy’s trial takes the adventurers to the laboratory of Professor Bean and some very peculiar dangers. *** Stay tuned for Book #2 in The Strange Perils of Ruth and Hawkins "The Monkey’s Skull"