Plum Lake
Visits to the Northwoods

David Nyweide's first book is a collection of family stories based on annual vacations to Wisconsin's Northwoods. Here's what people are saying about Plum Lake:

"This book is a story of family and of youthful adventure, but mostly about a boy's kinship with Wisconsin's north country -- a kinship nourished during sixteen years of summer family vacations at a Plum Lake resort. The crisp mornings, the soft evenings, the smells of campfires and pines, the sounds of water lapping the sandy shore -- all are delightfully described by a talented young writer." -- Steve Hopkins, author of Walter's Boy

"Plum Lake by David Nyweide is a skillful and meticulously observed evocation of that part of the Old Northwest some of us are so lucky to live in. He writes of swimming, fishing, hiking, biking, the building of secret hideouts, the wonders of ice cream from a country store in the evening. And unusual for one so young, he also elicits a sense of history throughout. This portrait of the land and his family is detailed and loving. The author's future as a writer is secure." -- Steve Fortney, author of Heg

"Intricacies of building a successful fort; the shock of the first dip in the cold lake; the magic of "more stars than the planetarium; Spaghetti Night; the Thanksgiving dinner of the Northwoods -- it's all told with clarity and sensitiviity by the boy himself as he is growing." -- Jean Clausen, author of Eagles Over the River and To Thank a River

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