Steinbeck's Ghost

By Lewis Buzbee

Subjects: Libraries, Characters in literature, Household Moving, Families, Books and reading, Political activists, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Family life

Description: Unhappy after his parents move to a weird subdivision and become workaholics, thirteen-year-old Travis returns to his old Salinas neighborhood and becomes actively involved in saving the John Steinbeck Library and, at the same time, begins seeing characters from Steinbeck's books who seem to have a message for him.