Boonsboro, MD: Hilliard Harris, (2007). SIGNED - Seventh book in this award winning series featuring Connor Westphal, set in California's gold rush country where Connor runs a weekly newspaper. Josh, a deaf activist, has proposed creating a self-sufficient deaf community in an old ghost town, and getting many of the future residents jobs at the controversial local casino. INSCRIBED on the first page. 181 pp. ISBN: 978-1591332091.