Gentlehands

by E Kerr M and M E Kerr

Published 1 April 1978
A teenage boy falls in love with an "upper-class" girl and gets to know his estranged grandfather in one heartbreaking summer which climaxes in a shattering search for Nazi war criminals.

Stein, the new boy at Cayuta High, is nicknamed "Doomed" by classmates who never guess he'll soon be the school star. He invents a newspaper called REMOTE, with ads everyone wants to imitate. Before long, Stein, the nerd who seemed like a loser, is most WANTED himself, particularly by the girl dating the school's star jock, star writer, star everything! Sometimes he who looks like a wimp is a winner - big time!