Ryan, Tom

Friendships are forged on prom night, when four teens help each other through disappointment, near-arrest, parental interference and panic attacks.

Seventeen-year-old Danny feels like he has nothing figured out, not his future plans, not relationships, not even his own sexuality, but a visit from a cool city girl might change his summer and his entire life.

When Neil starts to compose and play his own music, it conflicts with the traditional Celtic music he performs with his family's band.

Relates how the author and his dog named Atticus M. Finch attempted to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire's four-thousand-foot peaks twice to pay tribute to a friend who died of cancer and raise money for charity.