"Aunt Ida would boil him in the laundry cauldron if she knew where he was." On the long wagon ride to the old homestead, she warned them about the Gypsies they d encountered, and now here he was, ducking into a colorful caravan with Samson, a Gypsy boy he had met . . . underwater. And it was the best thing to happen since they d moved from Stillwater to this lonely, hard place to try to reclaim the decrepit family farm.

Missing his friends and life as it was before his brother s accident and his mother s silent grief, fourteen-year-old Martin Gunnarsson is trying to hold his family...