Paperback
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, June 1, 1979)
A thirteen-year-old boy who wants to escape his dull middle-class existence finds his way blocked by his involvement with a family of poor agricultural workers.
Kitty Dale, whose mother does not want to deal with a child, or admit one into her new life, spends the summer with Aunt Petal and eventually learns to accept her mother's weaknesses