Stealing Home

By Patsy Ann Taylor

When 13-year-old Trevor misses his bus home to Napa, he is thrown into a world he has only seen from the outside--the world of the homeless.Hurt and angry with his dad for ruining their trip and sending him home alone, Trevor decides to have his own adventure: something to tell the kids at school.From the bus depot window he sees a homeless man he recognizes as a former baseball player, Royal "King" Collins. On impulse, Trevor leaves the depot to meet the man.King walks away leaving his backpack behind. Trevor retrieves the backpack intending to return it but becomes lost in downtown Los Angeles. Now, stranded in a big city, he must fend for himself.When Trevor is mugged in broad daylight and accused of theft, his adventure quickly becomes a tangle of events he never could have imagined.Befriended by streetwise Tracy Blue, Trevor ends up in a homeless shelter. He is determined to return King's backpack and along the way learns something about the homeless and how they live.Set in Downtown Los Angeles during America's Bicentennial celebration, the story takes Trevor on an adventure certain to change his life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0996495703
• ISBN13: 9780996495707
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Monday Moon Ink
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.4" x 5.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years