Rooster covers one year in the lives of two twelve year old boys, living in oak-wooded foothills, and the boys' battles with two persistent antagonists: a fierce old boar hog named Old Lop Ear, and a weird old recluse named Garvey Bockenweiler. The stories are a mixture of real life adventures of the two young boys, and fantastic constructs of one boy's fertile imagination. Rooster conjures up imagined encounters with a huge rattlesnake, a wise old bullfrog, and a motherly skunk. The young...