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What Can a Young Boy Do When His Family Craters?

Irrepressible nine-year-old Duncan Findlay does what he does best-he makes it an adventure.

Come along on his journey through 1960s America as he navigates-with little guidance and few limits-that colorful and convulsive era.

Santa Cruz is paradise to him and his boys, but one marred by bullies, abusers, and the predators that they must face together-all while temptations from California's dawning New Age beckon.

As Duncan pushes the edges of his freedom, his true security lies with his band of stalwart friends, a remarkable woman who acts as a second mother, and a surprising friendship that might be something more.

But after tragedy strikes, he crosses lines into new levels of recklessness that flirt with his destruction.

Historically authentic, this heartwarming, thought-provoking novel follows a boy growing up fast among the thrills and risks of a rapidly changing world. At times heartbreaking, often charming and funny, and sometimes disturbing, it is rich with intriguing, kind characters but also with the frightening ones that every parent hopes their child will never encounter.

It is especially Duncan's coming-of-age story, a soaring, swooping flight taking the ultimate free-range kid toward a life-changing decision.