Publisher's Synopsis
Newbery Honor book
Filled with stories of raft hands and river pilots, this fast-paced novel has all the momentum of the great Mississippi. Barred from his family home-stead by his mean-spirited uncle, eighteen-year-old Chris weathers a Minnesota winter in a small cabin with his grandfather. Poverty and the tempting stories of a wandering Easterner convince Chris to harvest the trees on his grandfather's land and float the logs down the spring floodwaters of the Mississippi to the lumber mills in Saint Louis.
