It Came From The Sky by Chelsea Sedoti

I liked this quirky story.  It's fine for any high school library.  The audio book is also good.

Gideon, the younger brother is a science geek who wanted to study seismic waves.  His older brother, Ishmael (Call me Ismael) "helps" and secretly adds more to the blast charge, thus creating a huge crater after the explosion and gets the attention of their parents and the local sheriff.  Things snowball into a con man selling the elixir of  youth .  In the land of the world's giant lava lamp, all becomes revealed.

a good story.