Other editions of book Champlain Summer

Twelve-year-old Max lives a thoroughly modern city life in Toronto. He has some unresolved emotional baggage over the death of his mother when he was five, and he has a less than satisfying relationship with his father, but he is handling things pretty well. Then his world falls apart when he innocently mentions seeing his step-mother with his father's business partner. Now he and his sister are being shipped off to New Brunswick to spend the summer with his grandparents while his parents work on their problems. His grandparents live on a farm opposite an island on which Champlain spent a disastrous winter in 1604. Over the course of the summer, Max's life slowly comes together with the help of his grandparents, his new friends, Tran and Caetlin, and Samuel de Champlain.

Max Bonney is in the middle of a nightmare. Not only does he feel responsible for the breakup of his father's second marriage, he is also being shipped off to St. Stephen, New Brunswick, to spend the summer with grandparents whom he doesn't even know. Once in St. Stephen, things go from bad to weird as Max starts to have disturbing dreams about Samuel de Champlain, the great explorer who once stayed on nearby Dochet's Island. The only thing that seems to be going right for Max is that he makes friends with Tran, and then Tran introduces him to Caetlin, who happens to have the most beautiful blue eyes he has ever seen...