Told from the perspective of an 11-year-old boy, this is the story of two families that leave the city and settle in the countryside near a monastery, in search of a more wholesome life, full of prayer and surrounded by the beauty of nature. Jimmy loves the new life, and volunteers as a helper for Father Alexis, the monastery's goat keeper. But his friend Vinny rebels and hankers to return to the city, and to being a cool kid in school.Schiller the...