Title: Madchild running
Description: "This work tells the story of a young girl caught up in the harrowing world of urban violence and of the man who tries to save her." "A young Native American man in his first job after college encounters an amazing variety of people in his role as a social worker. Out of all these needy and desperate people he develops a strong bond with a teenage-girl named Nicki.".

"He becomes her role model and she becomes the one person he wants to save. The juxtaposition of these two characters creates the tension and the finale to this tough and tightly woven tale of contemporary urban life."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Teenage girls, Social workers, Indians of North America, Fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Indians of north america, fiction