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Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretch's Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm.

Carley recalls the extraordinary summer when, as a troubled fourteen-year-old, he first came to northern Minnesota to stay with his blacksmith Uncle David and gained not only new skills but also a new sense of himself.

As part of his thirteenth birthday Jimmy Benge is spending a week ice fishing with his friend, Ryan, in northern Minnesota at his Cherokee family's lakeside home; one day they get permission to go out further on the lake to try for Northern pike, and Jimmy catches a beauty--but a sudden snow squall turns the situation dangerous and as the boys pack up to make their way back, Uncle Kenny's ATV flips over and he is injured, and it is up to the boys have to get everybody home safely.