Part of the series of books that feature Nicky and his disabled older brother Kenny. In this one, Nicky and Kenny are fishing in a local lake when three things happen. 1. They are startled by a strange, angry man who is also fishing. 2. They lose the fishing rod when Kenny casts it across the lake onto an island. 3. Nicky sees a dead body with a gold rolex watch on the hand and knows it is the body of the man who tried to put his father in jail (Jedbo the bully from Brock's father). SPOILERS: Nicky and Kenny then set about trying to build a raft/boat to get across to the island so they can retrieve the fishing rod and the gold rolex. Nicky has the intention of selling it and helping his family out of poverty but his conscience gets the better of him and he tries to give the watch back to Jedbo the bully and tell him his father's body is in the lake but Jedbo doesn't believe him and tells him the watch is a fake. But this is all AFTER Nicky nearly drowns and is rescued by the angry man.
This one is better than Brock in that it has a more rounded moral to the story and students will find the "dead body in the lake" more appealing to read about than badgers like the first one I think. ( )