Their parents like to spend family vacations in “out-of-the-way” places, narrates their elder son (13). In each short chapter he recounts the fam ily’s adventures: a hurricane in Maine, a sandstorm in the Arizona desert, and how he saves his younger brother from a dangerous wave on a beach in California. Other adventures include a visit to an unusual farm in Brit ish Columbia, experiencing Christmas and New Years in Mexico, and a narrow escape on a beach holiday at Tybee Island, Georgia. Interesting information about different locales is integrated with the narrator’s humor ous observations. Among her many awards, Marie-Louise Gay has won The