Red River Raging

Instead of fishing for "channel cats" with his great-grandfather in southern Manitoba, thirteen-year-old Finn Armstrong winds up fighting the Red River Flood of 1997, the biggest flood since 1826. Finn is furious when his parents head off on another scientific mission to the other side of the world, and he has to stay with his grandmother on her farm in southern Manitoba. Not only are the kids at school far less than welcoming, he also has to deal with his cantankerous great-grandfather who doesn't seem to want him around. The Red River flowing by their property is the only thing that provides him peace - and a weird friend, the mysterious Angus. But the Red River isn't always so placid — it's flooded before, and as the spring of 1997 arrives, it threatens to do so again. Will the river once more endanger everyone's homes and livelihood? Can the challenge of facing adversity bring the family closer together at last? Just who is this Angus character and what's he doing atthe river? Red River Raging is Penny Draper's most engaging and spine-tingling disaster story yet.