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<p><P><b>The times they are a-changin' . . .</b><P>The summer that Paul turns sixteen his mother pushes him to take a job in town instead of just working on the family farm. &#8220;You need to meet the public,&#8221; she says, which is saying a lot for a woman deeply committed to the tightly knit religious community to which they belong. And meet the public Paul does&#58; He meets Kirk, the angry gas station manager; Harry, a reclusive and kindly gangster; and a family of hippies passing in a yellow peace van to San Francisco. He also meets beautiful Peggy, a high school sensation, and dark-haired Dale, her onthe-<p>side boyfriend who is headed to Vietnam. All of them come to the station &#8211; as well as girls on summer vacation, tanned and smelling of coconut oil, and ministers from Paul&#8217;s fundamentalist church, who are worried about his soul. As the summer progresses, Paul learns the secrets of his small Minnesota town and discovers that he&#8217;s ready to have a few secrets of his own.<P>With richly developed characters and a flair for arresting imagery, Will Weaver tells the story of the end of one boy&#8217;s innocence, unfolding at a time when the country as a whole

Author

Will Weaver

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429934282

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Children'S

Rating

3.55 / 5 (186 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14