Book Description
Cares of a Wandering Boy tells the story of a few days in the life of fourteen-year-old Sam Furlong. It¿s a different sort of life¿spent haunting libraries and roaming the dusty back roads of California with his father¿a life Sam wouldn¿t trade for anything. But life, as he¿s beginning to understand, isn¿t about what he wants. Something is wrong with his father, the architect and navigator of their unique, closed world, something that is taking him apart piece by piece and threatening to bring their way of life to an end. Determined to get the help his father needs and preserve the only world he¿s ever known, Sam sets off on a journey into the perilous unknown of the Real World. Weaving through the forest of closely-guarded secrets that is his father¿s past and the equally uncertain landscape of his own future, Sam¿s path will raise as many questions as it answers: Who is his mother? Why is he forbidden to know anything about her? Is he really trying to save his world, or escape from it?
