John Ames

Adventures in Nowhere John Ames Reprint edition

Ten-year-old Danny Ryan is transplanted to a tiny community outside Tampa, a place his older sister calls Nowhere. But for Danny, Nowhere is where adventures lure them into more trouble than they can handle. More trouble is not what Danny needs as he copes with a father sinking into schizophrenia; two sisters, one very ill and the other ready to run away with a shady boyfriend; and a mother trying her best to hold it all together. Adventures in Nowhere paints a compelling, imaginative, and often humorous vision of a time and a place, allowing readers to live in the mind of a remarkably thoughtful and intense boy caught at the final edge of childhood.