Everything you need to understand or teach Onion John by Joseph Quincy Krumgold.
Exciting, suspenseful, and humorous, Onion John tells the story of a twelveyear-old boy, Andy Rusch, Jr., his father, and his adult friend Onion John.
In exploring the development of Andy's relationship with his father, the novel develops themes of the awakening of self-awareness, and of the need to accept persons with very different perceptions and opinions about life. The events in the book are realistic and believable, and the characters' actions and thoughts...