About the story: The Lynch family has moved to Battle Creek, Michigan, and the four older Lynch children, who miss their friends in Connecticut, are dismally gazing out the front window of their new house. Soon, small groups of children with various types of snow equipment begin trooping past the house. The Lynch kids follow the groups to a neighborhood pond, and they discover a whole new world of possibilities. Their first day at the pond initiates them to members of a local, rather notorious, gang and various groups they will encounter in their new school. As the Lynches learn the social...