Book description
It's the summer of 1972, and Kansas wheat fields are baking under the relentless sun. Teenagers are celebrating the first taste of freedom as they line their pockets with newly printed driver's licenses and long-awaited paychecks. Days off are spent at the town's only lake, nights under the yellow lights…
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Billy is a high school student who wants to enjoy his summer. The problem is that he is ordered by a judge to spend his summer working for Old Lady Baxter after damaging her property. Billy’s friends are convinced Old Lady Baxter killed a bunch of kids years ago and got away with it. They want Billy to find the evidence to prove her guilty.
Billy is facing a test of loyalty in his search for his identity. Will he be the person his friends want him to be? Who does he want to be? He’s done his fair share…
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