The Mystery of Dies Drear House is about a boy named Thomas who is in a kind of feud with his next door neighbors. Both families are trying to find the buried treasure that is some where on their land. Thomas's main external conflict is that he has to meet secretly with his best friend from the rival family. His main internal conflict is that he has to deicide if he is going to forgive his friend for the secrets that she has kept from him and his family. I can connect this book to the world. Back in the day there where a ton of hillbillies who where always fighting over land. That is exactly like this book only in a different time period. There was always some buried treasure on the land and all the neighbors wanted it, so they would fight. I would give this book only two stares becausee is was completely boring. It was too descriptive, just give me a picture not a page full of descriptive words. I would not recommend this book to anyone. I hated it.