Title: Palms to the ground
Description: The only child of an over-protective mother and a well-meaning father, and in therapy since the age of seven, eighth-grader Calman Pulowitz spends a week with his pen pal in Washington State, getting drunk, running away, and learning a lot about himself.
Subjects: Family life, Fiction, Only child, Pen pals, Psychotherapy, Self-perception, Families, Juvenile fiction, Friendship, Children's fiction, Behavior, fiction, Parent and child, fiction