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Gr 9 Up—It's a hot day in Chicago when Joey Crouch's mother is hit by a bus and killed. The 16-year-old is forced to move to small-town Iowa with a hermitlike father whom he has never met. Life is hard; his father disappears for days at a time from his squalid, unfurnished home, and at school Joey becomes the victim of bullies and a self-righteous faculty. When he discovers that his father is a grave robber, Joey decides that he wants to be a part of this clandestine and ancient p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Following the sudden death of his mother, lonely and grieving Joey is sent to live with his estranged father in a mod...Log In or Sign Up to Read More