Product Description: Change and adventure await Nick's return from camp. Fourteen-year-old Nick returns home to Michigan from camp to find that his father is out of work. He also discovers his mother has decided to return to college, which puts the family in financial hardship...read more

When Nick is given a chance to leave the Lower East Side of Detroit to be a junior counselor at Wa-Tonka horseback riding camp in northern Michigan, he jumps at the opportunity to leave the city behind and make new friendships, learn new responsibilities, and find acceptance and confidence.