On the final night of their summer vacation Luke and Jenny camp out on their great-grandmother’s porch at her Missouri farm. But their sweet dreams are interrupted when Kate, the ghost of a young farm girl, takes them on another journey back in time as they follow the adventures of Frank and Jesse James, their friend Cole Younger, and his brothers. Young readers are right there with Luke and Jenny as Kate guides them through the Civil War and the many bank and train robberies committed by the notorious James-Younger outlaw gang.