The running man
By: by Michael Gerard Bauer.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780061455087; 9780061455094
Subjects: Artists -- Fiction; Recluses -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Emotional problems -- Fiction; Silkworms -- Fiction; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Australia -- Fiction; Australia -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Fourteen-year-old Joseph reluctantly agrees to draw a portrait of his reclusive neighbor, Tom, for a class assignment, and over time, like the silkworms Tom raises, both men come out of their cocoons and face their fears.