A children’s novel in the realm of realistic fiction on rebellion, family and growing up. Jake has been kicked out of every public school in Rhode Island, he burned down the last school that he attended. To avoid being put into a juvenile detention center, he is sent to a home-school run by an eccentric family called “the Applewhites”. There, he meets their daughter E.D. who helps Jake navigate his new surroundings.

Novel · United States · 2002