Full name: Home After Dark: A Novel

Author: David Small Year: 2018 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Graphic Novels, Fiction, Young adult, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780871403155 0871403153

Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to sun-splashed California in search of a dream. Suddenly forced to fend for himself, Russell struggles to survive in Marshfield, a dilapidated town haunted by a sadistic animal killer and a ring of malicious boys who bully Russell for being "queer." Rescued from his booze-swilling father by Wen and Jian Mah, a Chinese immigrant couple who long for a child, Russell betrays their generosity by running away with their restaurant's proceeds. Similar books: Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol Salt Water Taffy by Matthew Loux Sunny Rolls the Dice by Jennifer L. Holm The whole world's crazy by Jimmy Gownley Empire State by Jason Shiga Over Easy by Mimi Pond Spiral-Bound by Aaron Renier Crush by Svetlana Chmakova Freeway by Mark Kalesniko Escape From Lucien by Kazu Kibuishi The Customer is Always Wrong by Mimi Pond Swing It, Sunny by Jennifer L. Holm Gray Horses by Hope Larson Heartbreaker by Jennifer L. Holm The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg Mercury by Hope Larson City of Spies by Susan Kim The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang Illegal by Eoin Colfer Page by Paige by Laura Lee Gulledge