Texas Summer

Harold Stevens is twelve years old, heading hell-bent for thirteen, away from the comfort of his mother's care to the realities of the world beyond. Grandfather would gladly initiate him into the world's ways, but his lessons are more prattle than practical. Harold's older friends dare him into danger and expose him to new—and not always edifying—experiences. But his real mentor is C.K., the twenty-three-year-old black hired hand on his father's farm.

Together they fish for the legendary cat...