Alex Neustaedter

When his older brother leaves to fight in the Second World War, fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley takes on a job as a bicycle telegraph messenger to provide for his widowed mother, his older sister and his younger brother. Homer delivers messages of love, hope, pain and death to the good people of Ithaca, but soon must grapple with a message that will change him forever. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel The Human...

Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his four-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as Spring turns to Summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain, and death, to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one...

Alan, Red, and Smitty spend high summer on the Jersey Shore, roving the boardwalk and getting into trouble. But the discovery of good old-fashioned treasure sets the friends on an escalating course of suspicion and violence in this atmospheric thriller.

Raised in a decaying old Pennsylvania mansion and homeschooled by their drunken professor father, Josie and Jack Raeburn have never had anyone but each other to depend on. Their father's alternating fits of rage and neglect make life on the Hill increasingly impossible. The siblings flee the only world they've ever known, first to Erie, then onto New York City, with Jack leaving a trail of intensifying violence in his wake and Josie just trying to...