<P><B>Left on his own <I>again</I>, Stud gets sucked into one of his father’s journals down into an ocean kingdom grappling with the murder of its king. Can Stud use his hammer hands to solve the case?</B><BR/><BR/> Our hero <B>Stud is a fourteen-year-old boy whose father regularly abandons him</B> on expeditions that he regularly catalogs in his own journals. Having to fend for himself, <B>Stud isn’t like most kids—he can turn his hands into hammers!</B> Unfortunately, the kids in the village don’t think it’s cool and do not allow him to join their own fun adventures. Considering that his father has always advised him that friends are the most important accomplishment a person can make, what’s a boy who can turn part of his body into metal to do? Go on his <I>own</I> adventures, of course!  </P><P> When <B>Stud stumbles upon one of his father’s journals detailing his past adventures</B> with Tara, Stud’s mother; our young her