Quiver River

Carkeet, David

ISBN 10: 0060224533 ISBN 13: 9780060224530

Publisher: A Laura Geringer Book; HarperCollins, 1991

The summer after their junior year in high school is full of promise for Ricky and Nate when they are hired to work at a lake resort in the Sierras. Sequel to "The Silent Treatment."

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From Kirkus Reviews:

A wry sequel to The Silent Treatment (1988): here, summer jobs put high-school seniors Ricky and Nate through a mystery from the past, as well as through some timeless rites of passage. Having to clean toilets and listen to gloomy, sex-obsessed Norman the Foreman seems like a fair exchange for a free stay at Quiver Lake resort, especially with all the college women around; Nate moves into hot (and eventually successful) pursuit of a Berkeley student, but Ricky is more inclined to watch from a distance. Meanwhile, what appear to be new but genuine artifacts of the long-integrated Miwok tribe begin to turn up, and Ricky almost loses his life in a primitive deer trap. Is there still a Miwok alive in the wild? Or, as someone suggests, is it the spirit of a young Miwok who never completed his manhood ritual and is unable to find the Aimah, an anthropomorphic rock formation? Carkeet's characters are portrayed sympathetically but broadly enough to keep the story light. The climax is big and dramatic: Ricky wakes one morning to find that the whole lake has suddenly drained away, exposing not only a field of slick mud but the Aimah, with piles of warm ashes at its crotch and armpits. There's no ghost to be seen, but readers can draw their own conclusions. (Fiction. 12-15) -- Copyright �1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 7 Up-- Another gem from the author of The Silent Treatment (HarperCollins, 1988). Ricky, Nate, and Rodney are all back, this time exploring maturation rather than relationships. When and how, in this modern day and age, does a boy become a man? Using the initiation rites of the Miwok Indians of California as a focal point for this question, Ricky tries to figure it out and wonders, in today's world, how much of it has to do with a first sexual experience or if something else is involved. Witty, realistic dialogue moves the story along, and the characters are so well drawn and true-to-life that readers will most likely know people just like them. Ricky and Nate are working maintenance at Quiver Lake resort, and Rodney is camped there living as a Miwok Indian as part of a summer study program. Mystery, romance, a teenage boy's fantasies, friendship, and coming-of-age are all woven together to make an upbeat story that will appeal to a wide readership. Reminiscent of Obnoxious Jerks (Bantam, 1990) by Manes and Koertge's Where the Kissing Never Stops (Little, 1986), this is a book with honest feelings and a sense of humor that will pique the interest of young adult readers. --Kathryn Havris, Mesa Public Library, AZ
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