Summary

Chapter Two skips ahead to 1989 when Peter and Kate are in the 6th grade. A large snowstorm is moving into Gillam and so school is cancelled early. The kids race home to have a snowball war. Peter gets waylaid at his house, where he finds his mother in a bad mood. She asks him to finish cooking dinner. That morning, before Peter had left for school, his mother had asked him about a replica Sir Francis Drake miniature ship she had bought him for Christmas that cost $600. Peter and Kate, who has become his best friend, sent the ship sailing down a stream of meltwater in a gutter several weeks before. The ship got scratches on the hull and so Peter took it inside his garage and left it there, thinking it would be safe. But he’d forgotten about it. Keane gives...