Tracktown Summer

By Holmes, Elizabeth

Publishers Summary:
Jake has felt fatherless ever since his parents separated, and so he can’t wait to spend the summer with his dad. But the house Dad rented is a shabby place next to the railroad tracks, with no friends and nothing to do. Then, through a pickup game of hoops, Jake befriends a neighbor boy. Adrian is charming at first, but soon Jake starts to sense a streak of desperation in him. Jake gets sucked into Adrian’s bizarre life, in which recklessness escalates to danger. Witnessing Adrian’s highly dysfunctional, sometimes violent, family gives Jake new perspective on his own situation.

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ISBN
978-0-52547-946-8
Publisher
Dutton Juvenile


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on July 1, 2009

Gr 5-8 Twelve-year-old Jakes parents have separated, so his mom wont even get out of the car when she dumps him at a rundown lakeside cabin to spend the summer with his dad, a newly minted professor whose focus is finishing his PhD. With nothing much to do, Jake befriends neighbors Adrian and Allie, both 14. Tensions soon develop with Adrian, who flies off the handle at nothing. Why wont he let them in his house? Is he being abused? Is his dad really a scientist workin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Guide

Reviewed on January 1, 2009

Jake imagines an idyllic summer with his recently separated dad. Instead, he finds himself stuck in a cottage by a polluted...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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