Grounded

By William Jaspersohn

Subjects: Parent and child, Self-perception, Interpersonal relations, Fiction, Runaways, Islands

Description: Troubled by the seeming meaninglessness of life, sixteen-year-old Joe Flowers runs away and is accidently marooned on a private island off Cape Cod where, through his relationship with the girl who is living there, he gains a better understanding of himself and how he wants to live his life.