The Rival Campers

At Southport, the steamboat brings no sign of Tom Harris and Bob White—but their canoe is still on its way across a bay the captain says will soon turn dangerous. Henry Burns, apparently too frail for mischief, has a plan of his own.

It is June on Grand Island, where a steamboat’s arrival is the village’s daily excitement and summer means tents, boats, and restless boys. Fourteen-year-old Henry joins the Warren brothers in preparing a surprise camp for their missing friends, all the while trading jokes and proving that his delicate appearance is misleading. But Tom and Bob are paddling toward a storm, and a box of provisions has been left behind on the wharf. What will reach the campers first: their friends, the weather, or trouble?

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