Chapter 1 Summary

Chapter 1 opens with an entry dated November 5. The narrator and his teammates on the Frost High School swim team are looking at a poster put up by their coach, Max, advertising something called "Stotan Week" to take place over the upcoming holiday vacation. There are few details on the poster, which only states the dates, and that Max is "looking for a few good men" to volunteer.

Walker Dupree, the narrator, is the swim team captain and he discusses the mysterious poster with his teammates, Lionel Serbousek, called "Lion," Jeff Hawkins, and Norton Wheeler, who is called "Nortie." Nortie is apprehensive about the poster and wonders what it could be about. The other boys wonder, too, and they speculate over it as they eat a large meal at a restaurant.

Frost High School is in Spokane, Washington and is the only high school...