When The Firewood Comes — Don Jones

A timely book for adolescents is one that addresses life as we are living it, life that is daily surrounded by possible terrorist attacks. What if terrorists are right in our midst, and a teenage boy who is adept at spying in the woods and a handicapped, computer whiz of a girl uncover a terrorist plot? These teenagers in When the Firewood Comes do, in fact, discover terrorists in the Ozarks who are plotting to blow up Table Rock Dam. With the enlisted aid of a physic mom and the Missouri Water Patrol who, in turn, joins forces with the CIA, a seemingly foolproof plan is thwarted.