Gold for an Even Greater Treasure: Characters Based on the Students of Village Seven Presbyterian Church and Sand Creek High School by David M Savage (Paperback / softback, 2011)
Hannah, an outreaching and devotional believer, is the cause for everything that takes place in the story and she is the story itself. Although she is an adolescent, she is t the kind of person you would suspect her to be given what her age implies. She invites her three friends on a week long retreat that she arranged with her church, so they can look for and pan for gold and other earthly valuables with her to earn a sum of money that will go directly toward her church's Mission Boards. Throughout the duration of the story's plot, Hannah helps to cause dynamic change in each of her friends by witnessing to them and even speaking to them and large crowds of people in parables; as well as help them to realize that there is a treasure in heaven that's greater than gold.
Given as young as he was when he started his first book, it was inconceivable for David to think that he had achieved such an accomplishment such as what he had. He started typing his book a few weeks before he turned fifteen and published it when he was sixteen. During his former education, he has only attended all levels of school up to eighth grade when the start of his book's construction got underway and he was only in tenth grade when his work was completed. He was only able to apply the elements of story writing he had learned from previous English classes, and people have said twenty months isn't that long for a first time published author given his current age. Shortly after, he had already started typing a sequel to his book: A continuation of Hannah and her friend's ministries at their high school and what effects her discipleships will have because living such a way is so alien to the typical world of high school.