Last Bus to Wisdom

"Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's ... Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for 'female trouble' in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate--bossy, opinionated, argumentative, and tyrannical--is nothing like her sister"--