294 pages
English language
Published June 30, 2008 by Greenwillow Books.
The running man
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Fourteen-year-old Joseph reluctantly agrees to draw a portrait of his reclusive neighbor, Tom, for a class assignment, and over time, like the silkworms Tom raises, both men come out of their cocoons and face their fears.
Subjects
- Artists -- Fiction
- Recluses -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Emotional problems -- Fiction
- Silkworms -- Fiction
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Australia -- Fiction
- Australia -- Fiction