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OLDER FICTION
Harmon, Michael

Skate

242 pp. | Knopf | October, 2006 | Trade ISBN 0-375-87516-6 $15.95 | Library ISBN 0-375-97516-0 $17.99
(4) YA Ian, who has an "anger management problem," and his developmentally disabled little brother, Sammy, are running from jail and the foster care system. They traverse Washington State on skateboard and on foot. Although the plot gets convoluted and ends too neatly, Ian's agonized voice drives this tense novel of self-reliance in a world of drugs, homelessness, and abandonment.
Reviewer: Amy Lee Bennett

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