The Colors of Beech Hill

Nick is tired of playing shortstop for his sorry old ball team in Northport, Michigan. So when all the pro players go no strike, he ditches the boys and ventures into the woods at Beech Hill to find his sister's old tree fort and a new kid named Tony, who has both wild eyes and grand ideas for summertime fun.

But the summer of 1981 turns into more than Nick was counting on as he finds himself engineering a contraption to squelch an insolent bully and weathering storms that arise out of seemingly nowhere. And Nick hadn't banked on either the courage it would take to come to grips with the loss of his own dad or the amazing power that friendship can have in the midst of even the darkest storms.