But the road to Farmington is only the beginning.
Thirteen-year-old Wayne Messick leaves behind a home that never felt like home and sets out on a 12-mile bicycle ride that will change everything.
Along the way, he gathers unlikely treasures, meets a blues-playing stranger named Amos, and discovers that some kindnesses feel like magic.
Told with raw honesty and a touch of the imagination that kept him alive, 12 Miles to Farmington is a story about becoming someone in a world that too often tries to break boys before they have a chance.
A few seconds may hold an entire lifetime.