Everything you need to understand or teach Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson.
Pete is a social worker for the Department of Family Services, working in Tenmile, Montana, at the beginning of the 1980s. He encounters a variety of cases, but none which are so intriguing as the Pearl family. When young Benjamin Pearl wanders into town, half-starved and suffering from vitamin deficiencies, Pete makes it his mission to find out everything he can about the family, even though Ben's father, Jeremiah, warns him...