By Dawn's Early Light

When Mike Lewis leaves L.A. to stay with his grandfather in Colorado for the summer, he hates the old man's cowboy ways. When Mike demands to go home, the old man agrees and saddles up a couple of horses for a six week trip toward California, home, the Pacific and redemption.

• grandparent grandchild relationship
• colorado
• dysfunctional family
• coming of age
• summer
• teenage boy