Ghost Canoe
... Ghost Canoe c. ... Summary of Novel- In the beginning of Ghost Canoe, Nathan, the lighthouse keepers son notices a small ship steering out of control into a cliff. ... But what he finds is a canoe that is hanging up high in the tree tops of the jungle. Inside of the canoe is a skeleton of a man. He later decided that the canoe is like a grave, only up higher and in the trees. Also inside the canoe is a small box, containing a couple of yellow stones that had been engraved with some form of Indian writings. ... So Nathan told Captain Bim about the canoe in the tree tops, but purposely forgot to mention the stones that he saw in the little box. ... Nathan goes camping and finds a canoe hanging up in the top of a tree, he goes to the top and finds small yellow stones in a box next to a skeleton of an old Makah Indian. ... He meets Captain Bim on the way back but does not tell him about the stones in the canoe. ... The conflict in the Ghost Canoe novel, is that Nathan has to deal with a mysterious character on his small island.