With her father serving in the Korean War and her mother working, Casey spends her 12th summer visiting her grandparents in their small town where she makes friends with a 33-year-old man with the mind of a 12-year-old....
When she befriends Christina, the new girl in school, Annie does not suspect that there is more to her than meets the eye and that Christina will have a huge impact on Annie's family and her oldest friends...
This powerful novel, named to the Amercian Library Association's Top 100 Countdown -- The Best Books for Young Adults -- is about a teenaged boy who has been moving through high school in New Jersey, trying to mask his unhappiness with a haze of drug...