- Fiction, Coming of age, Homosexuality, Friendship
Moving from Long Island to Kansas after his mother dies, a teenaged boy nicknamed Sprout is surprised to find new friends, a fascinating landscape, and romantic love.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Dale Peck
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, Brand: Bloomsbury Childrens, Bloomsbury Childrens Books
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781599901602
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