The beet fields / Paulsen, Gary

In the summer of 1955, a sixteen-year-old boy runs from his troubled home and learns about people, friendship, love, and lust while working as a migrant farmer and a carny.

A boy runs away from home and his drunken parents and spends his sixteenth summer learning about life as a migrant laborer, and carnival worker.

In the summer of 1955, a sixteen-year-old boy runs from his troubled home and learns about people, friendship, love, and lust while working as a migrant farmer and a carny.