Everyone is always telling Wyatt to be quiet because he's too young, but when he gets mad and stops talking, it seems that maybe he wasn't so annoying after all.
After his father, the town's volunteer fire chief, is injured, Jed has even more reason to try to prove that he is not responsible for a series of suspicious fires.
Twelve-year-old Luke's summertime adventures along the river are haunted by the memory of his older brother Robert, who died being a daredevil in the same place a year and a half earlier.