Jamie Robbins

Young Jamie Robbins yearns to explore, to venture beyond the small world he's known in his sleepy hometown of Ridgeford on the Mississippi River. It's not that fishing with his best friend, David Allen or joining him in frolics with Mrs. Ross' two teenage daughters don't bring him fun and friendship, they do, and he enjoys them right where he is. But, each time he watches a steamboat pass by, or when Miss Chamberlain reads to the class about far-away places, his wanderlust returns and makes...