Sang Spell - Softcover

The author of more than ninety books, Phyllis reynolds Naylor has written many novels for young adults including The Keeper, Send No Blessings, Ice, The Year of the Gopher, and A String of Chances.  Mrs. Naylor is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Newbery Medal in 1992 for Shiloh.  She lives with her husmand in Bethesda, Maryland.

READER BIO:
Ron Rifkin has appeared in numerous films and television shows including JFK and L.A. Confidential.  He won a Tony Award for hiss role in the Broadway production of Cabaret.

Rifkin
4 hours 47 minutes, 3 cassettes

Josh is hitchhiking from Boston to Dallas to begin a new life, trying to sort out the changes that have skewed his world since an accident killed his mother and made a mockery of his dreams. No longer will he be what he was—an important person in a high school he loved. Instead he will be starting his junior year in a place where no one will know him, on one will care.

He wanders up a road he has taken away from the interstate, where he has been thumbing rides, looking for a village where he might find shelter from the unexpected August cold and rain. When a car comes along, it looks like a ride to somewhere. And that's what it proves to be. But the somewhere he finds is not the somewhere he expected. It is a place that knows him, knows the darkness inside of him; that offers food and shelter, and also confronts him with choices he does not know how to make. It probes his past, examines his possible futures, and finall