Title: Toll Bridge, The
First published: 1995
Description: Young adult novel

To escape the pressures of suffocating parents and a possessive girlfriend, seventeen-year-old Piers takes a job as a keeper of a toll bridge and its cottage. There he befriends Adam, a charismatic wayfarer who shows up one day and refuses to leave. He also befriends a girl named Tess, and soon he and Tess find themselves strangely attracted to Adam and falling under his spell.
Subjects: Emotional problems, Fiction, Self-perception, Friendship, Suicide, Self-reliance, Juvenile fiction, Toll bridges, Children's fiction, Self-perception, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Emotions, fiction