Punk Smith

Punk don’t care and you can’t make him. No one can. His mother Sara quit trying and his teachers don’t know how. The school counselors have the paperwork to prove it. Against a backdrop of public education we seldom stand to confront, even the lost and unreachable are not beyond the purposes of grace.

So what happens when Peter Dwayne Smith, this second-time seventh-grader, kills a man and no one believes him when he tells? Even Kip, his one and only friend doesn’t buy the story. Awakened, P...