Ordered to practice his writing skills in the blank book his mother gave him, fourteen-year-old Johnny would rather go fishing near his home on North Carolina's Outer Banks and cannot think of anything important to write until two ""dingbatters"" from Ohio arrive in 1900 and try to build a flying machine.Ordered to practice his writing skills in the blank book his mother gave him, Johnny would rather go fishing and cannot think of anything important to write until two ""dingbatters"" from Ohio arrive and try to build a flying machine.