Wentworth, Ohio: a small friendly town where the Carver children bicker over sweets in the E-Z shop and writer Johnny Marinville is the only resident who minds his own business.
On Poplar Street, apart from the impending storm, it's just a normal summer's day - with frisbees flying, law mowers humming and barbeques grilling. As the paperboy makes his round, he is unaware of the chrome red van idling up the hill.
Soon the residents will be caught up in a game of wills as the regulators arrive in force to face a child whose powers of expression are just awakening...
- ISBN10 0340671777
- ISBN13 9780340671771
- Publish Date 19 June 1997 (first published 2 September 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Hodder Paperback
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 464
- Language English