Barefoot At The Lake

"An idyllic summer at the cottage in the 1950s, as revealed through the eyes of a boy on the cusp of adolescence: a first crush, the joy of nature, and the struggle to understand grown-ups. To ten-year-old Bruce, the summer of 1954 seemed, at first, like any other in Ontario's cottage country: floating in the rowboat, eating peach pie, watching the seagulls, frogs and herons and catching crayfish. But just when he thinks that life is perfect, everything starts to change, and over the summer both the harshness of the adult world and the patterns of the natural world reveal themselves. By the time the weather turns he will be a different child and will have chosen his own path to understanding the wilderness that waits behind the family cottage. Funny, subtle and true, Barefoot at the Lake transports us to a long, hot, poignant summer."--Jacket.