Nat and Boyd have plans to go to Camp Willomet for a week, but, four days before camp, Fink gets sick. Nat's hoping Fink will get well in time, or he'll have to face Camp Willomet alone.
When his best friend is seriously injured in a bike accident, Guy recounts their first meeting and how the friendship grew despite the weird antics of Guy's eccentric mother.
While Catfish Kate and her friends are making sweet swamp music, Skink and his Skunktail boys are trying to read and they demand that the girls be quiet, but Kate finds a clever compromise.