num_pages: 144
description: Fifteen-year-old Peter Sinclair's father is a paranoid schizophrenic afraid of helicopters police and life itself. When Peter's mother leaves home one day and doesn't return Pete and his father soon find themselves living hand-to-mouth estranged from family and teetering on the brink of homelessness. Based on a real experience this is a haunting and ultimately redemptive story of illness love and a boy's indomitable spirit to survive.
language: English
title: Helicopter Man
publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books