It is the summer of 1953 in Jack London's Valley of the Moon when our Volume 2 opens. In his mind's eye, Henry recommences charting his journey. He does so in the profane, plain spoken lexicon of the teen culture he's growing up in. Henry's experiences take him to the brink and increasingly beyond into crisis as a new worldview comes into focus for him. This transformation is inspired and identified with Yank Finn, an extraordinary example of an enlightened adult, in an otherwise oppressive, detached, dysfunctional milieu. More than half a Century has elapsed. A mouse is no longer a wayward little critter hiding in one's closet. Ah, but the essential problems remain in a much worse condition given their having been ignored and swept under the proverbial rug. The result is a profoundly untenable condition I call Adultheid, America's Apartheid. Henry's alter ego rebels against this negating force. The story ends but the book carries on offering the hope of solutions that work were it not for the intractable obduracy of the adult status quo. With all the fighting, the high road spirit of Henry should refreshen us all for the eminent task ahead where our children are concerned.