A heart-healing, mocs-on-the-ground story of music, family and friendship. -- Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of Tantalize and Rain is Not My Indian Name.Lewis Shoe Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white people being nice to him -- people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force. As the boys connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his family's poverty from George. He also has to deal with the vicious Evan Reininger, who makes Lewis the special target of his wrath. But when everyone else is on Evan's side, how can he be defeated? And if George finds out the truth about Lewis's home -- will he still be his friend?
Acclaimed adult author Eric Gansworth makes his YA debut with this wry and powerful novel about friendship, memory, and the joy of rock 'n' roll.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Published: 07/30/2013
ISBN: 9780545417303
Pages: 359
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.30d
Award: American Indian Youth Literature Award - Honor Book
Award: Alabama Camellia Award - Nominee
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2013
Publishers Weekly 07/01/2013
School Library Journal 09/01/2013 pg. 142
Booklist 09/01/2013 pg. 103
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2013
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2013 pg. 97
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2013 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2014 - Superior,Well Above Average
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 159824 / If I Ever Get Out of Here
Reading Level: 5.6 /
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus /
Point Value: 16