I read this one after seeing a friend's review of it on Goodreads and I thought it might be a good "adventure" title to know about. Wow. Moon Blake (the main character) has been raised in the woods his whole life and is a very self-sufficient child. When his dad dies, he finds himself feeling a little lonely and ventures out into society. There, he has some run-ins with the law and LOTS of adventures ensue. I find myself feeling a little concerned that these boys do so many very dangerous things (riding around a clay pit in a beater truck and crashing into things so hard that the windshield shatters (okay, they WERE wearing helmets at that point, but...); shooting rifles; using chainsaws) and don't seem to have any negative consequences for those actions. Maybe I'm just a Nervous Nellie, but... does reading about these things make kids want to try them? Or does it purge that temptation because they've "experienced" it through the text?