In the spring of 1949 Warren Hearst can no longer play shortstop or
ride his bike. The polio epidemic has claimed his body. Bundled in
a blanket in the back of the family Chevy "Woody" station wagon,
Warren rolls along Highway 30 toward Omaha and hospitalization. He
will be a miserable "crip." He plans to run away. But the plan is
dashed when he meets Whitey, that pushy little twerp across the
street in the new, unfamiliar neighborhood. Out of the hospital,
and sporting a leg brace and a crutch, Warren finds himself bumping
along in Whitey's coaster wagon. Their destination is the old
Woodard farm where a legendary, weathered tree house has been
waiting to welcome yet another troubled child. The story begins
when Warren and Whitey, life long friends and now in their sixties,
are sitting face to face in a breakfast booth with sketchy plans
drawn on a grease spotted placemat. It will be midnight when
Whitey's pickup will bounce through the fields of the now deserted
Woodard farm. The tree house will be dismantled and rebuilt in an
old tree in Warren's back yard. Another special child will climb
the ladder, because the planet Venus will be positioned just right
in the glowing sunset of the western sky.
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