When a letter arrives one day announcing that Ralph and Rachel Helmsley have disappeared atop an iceberg in Antarctica, Archer's world is changed forever.Ībove all, Archer's story is one of friendship.
With "talking" stuffed badgers, ostriches, giraffes, bears and a glass eye he mysteriously receives in the mail from his grandparents, Archer creates adventures of his own in the Helmsley house.ĭue to what his mother calls "his tendencies," Archer is rarely able to leave the house and his only escapes are to his school, which happens to be a former button factory, and secret trips to the museum with his father. From the very beginning, Archer showed all the signs of being a Helmsley." Helmsley had such thoughts of their own, they were quickly extinguished. "Some parents may wonder, How do we know we have the right one? after bringing their child home from the hospital. Helmsley and his two equally eccentric friends.Īrcher is growing up in a home filled with the magnificent collection of oddities owned by his grandparents, renowned explorers and adventurers Ralph and Rachel Helmsley.Īlthough he's never met them (except for the day of his birth), Archer's mother and father quickly recognize that he may be more like his grandparents than they prefer. In this brilliant debut novel for children in the middle grades, "The Doldrums," Nicholas Gannon introduces readers to the adventures, sometimes accidental, of an eccentric young dreamer named Archer B.
They wash their faces and brush their teeth and open the front door hoping everything strange and out of the ordinary is waiting for them." "When dreamers wake up, their dreams have only just begun.
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