In an America of the near future, a fourteen-year-old boy named Sam controls many lives. Influenced by his stern cunning, his alcoholic mother and mysterious younger brother play their parts in Sam's ingenious plan for family survival in a time of rampant troubles. But how much can one boy truly control? An ALA 1989 Best Books for Young Adults.
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