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Owen and his grandfather go on a spur-of-the-moment trip from Canada to Iceland. Owen is determined to retrieve his own notebook, accidentally sent to Icelandic archives by Granddad in place of a famous Icelandic poet's journal. Information about real-life poet Stephan Stephansson is woven into the earnest intergenerational family drama; Owen's concern for his increasingly forgetful grandfather is more compelling than the subplot involving Owen's secret notebook.