McCullers, Carson

Sixteen-year-old Pete relates how his twelve-year-old cousin's hero worship turns to hatred.

A deaf mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents.

Frankie Addams, a motherless twelve-year-old raised by her father and the family's African-American cook, struggles with conflicting feelings about her brother's upcoming wedding.

Twelve-year-old Frankie is utterly bored until she hears about her older brother's wedding. He returns from Alaska to his Georgia, and Frankie decides she will go, uninvited, on the honeymoon.