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Gr 4-7 In Raleigh, NC, seventh-grader Tobin McCauley has let life pass him by since his mother died five years earlier, but when a new student at school befriends him, he begins to look at the world with fresh eyes. Tobin has been the odd kid out for so long that when Henry Otis engages him in conversation and invites him over, the boy wonders what to make of it all. While Tobin's father is working or out on weekends, he and his older siblings scrounge for cereal...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Tobin knows what his seventh-grade classmates think of him: he's a McCauley, so he must be white trash and a future criminal; his Granny is the town character, so he might be crazy; and he struggles with school, so perhaps he's stupid. What they don't know, and what Dowell reveals gradually, is that he's lonely. Since his mother's death, his father has abandoned all preten...Log In or Sign Up to Read More