"Everyone should knock off work, sit beneath the nearest tree, and enjoy Rascal from cover to cover." - Chicago Tribune Skunks, woodchucks, a crow named Poe, an 18 ft. half-finished canoe in the living room ... welcome to the North home. Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings him home to join the menagerie, but soon raccoon and boy are best friends, doing everything together - until the spring day when Sterling realizes things must change. A Newberry Honor Book