When Don discovers a birth certificate with the name “Stanley” on it, he starts becoming suspicious. But, he discovers that she has been missing for the past eleven years, and that his parents have been paying a detective to track her down. Everyone wants to know him and everyone wants his eggs.ĭon’s family has always had some dark secrets – Don was told, for instance, that his sister Dawn was dead. Formerly ignored or teased by the other kids, Don becomes the town darling. Then, Don, eleven, becomes the youngest kid ever to win the chicken-judging competition in Horse Island. No one paid much attention to the chickens except Don. Don’s family keeps chickens for “ambience.” When Don’s uncle died and left them the house it was on the condition that they keep at least twenty-five chickens on the premises at all times.
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