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Set at a late-nineteenth-century logging camp in northern Michigan, the humorous story details the exploits of eleven-year-old Stanley Slater, who's known for his overactive imagination, energy, and scrapbooking talents, and who's on a quest to find his long-lost dad. Larger-than-life characters dominate; standouts include Stanley's impossible cousin Geri, his strict grandmother, and lumberjack Stinky Pete (who may be a murderer).