Nick Quartermaster is terrified of talking, so he writes - letter after letter after letter, to everyone he knows - his newly unemployed father, his annoying sisters, his popular, charismatic best friend, the eccentric folks on his rural Adirondack paper route, and a weird girl at school who just won't leave him alone. Add to that the inhabitant of a mysterious house on the route and the counselors his father insists he meet with . . . . Wait - counselors?...