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Tumbleweed Terrace Desert View Homes, somewhere south of Tucson, Arizona -- "A nice place to raise your kids," as promised by a faded billboard usually used as a vulture perch -- is broiling under a fierce yellow sun. The land all around is empty except for cactus and sagebrush, mostly shades of rust and gray, and the only green for many miles are the squares of lawns in Tumbleweed Terrace, which, from a vulture's point of view, probably looks as alien as a place to raise your kids on Mars, with most of its houses unoccupied, while others are still only skeletons of slowly shriveling two-by-four bones. The huge shopping mall has never opened, its doorways boarded with sheets of plywood, and the wide but mostly deserted streets wander though acres of blank-windowed empty or only partly completed homes; and there are many dusty lots with only barren concrete foundations and raw earth holes for swimming pools. Dustin Rhodes, and his mom and dad, are not only one of the very few families who live in this nice suburban ghost town -- the only dwellers on Trader Rat Lane -- but also the only black people. Dustin home-schools online, while his father, a Fed-Ex pilot, and his mother, a train dispatcher, are usually away, and Dustin has known mostly solitude for all of his thirteen years. But when he shows kindness to an elderly Apache medicine man, someone moves into the house next door. At first they appear to be only a middle-aged man-and-wife, friendly and seemingly "nice," but Dustin soon discovers they seem to be hiding someone else in their house. Dustin begins to investigate and comes to the conclusion that it must be a boy of around his own age... but why is he being hidden? Further investigation only deepens the mystery of why his parents deny he exists, and even when Dustin at last discovers who is being hidden and why, there remains a final mystery only solved at the end of the story.
| ISBN-13 | 9780997799491 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0997799498 |
| List Price | $3.99 |
| Format | - |
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| Language | English |
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| Published On | 2013-11-13 |
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