Tough Times

By Sheri McGuinn

Michael Dolan McCarthy is a biracial teen, named for a black father he barely remembers and a white grandfather he's never known. His beloved step-father, Swede, died on Michael's fourteenth birthday. Nothing's gone right since then. Now he's fifteen and flirting with the girl across the street when his little sister calls. Their mother is dead with a pill bottle by her hand and a note for Michael that says "Stay together."
Michael knows they'll be split up by the system, so he decides to take his young white siblings to his mother's parents. All he has is an address - across the country. While Michael deals with responsibility, grief, prejudice, fear, his first romantic relationship, and hormones, the police find his mother and label it murder. They think Michael did it, but the killer is stalking the kids.
Previous version published as Michael Dolan McCarthy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1942069081
• ISBN13: 9781942069089
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Durare Publishing
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary