Karl Shoemaker, starting his senior year in Lightsburg, Ohio, in 1973, vows to break out of the therapy group he has been forced to attend during school hours and become "normal.".
year: 2011
call number/section: 1000
subjects: emotional problems of teenagers, juvenile fiction, friendship, alcoholism, mothers and sons, high schools, schools, emotional problems, fiction, coming of age, mother-son relationship, school stories, bildungsromans, ohio, history, 20th century, juvenile fiction, fiction, bildungsromans