American Library Association Recommended Book Avon Flare Young Adult Novel Competition Winner Publishers Weekly Cuffie Award Recipient This anniversary edition of the award-winning novel BUCK includes a never-before published epilogue and a new author foreword. “... impressively focused and well written ...” — Publishers Weekly “The stranger Rich Candy finds in his car one August day is a teenage boy from Los Angeles running from his past. When Rich decides to take Buck Dawson home with him, he doesn’t know how his decision will change his life....” — The ALAN Review “Sometimes, supporting a friend cannot be more important than standing up for what is right.” — Voice of Youth Advocates “This fascinating and disturbing novel [was] writtten when the author was 17.... This is a subtle story, with no easy explanations or answers. ... a sure hit with fans of S.E. Hinton and Robert Cormier.” — KLIATT “When I saw BUCK’s spine I pulled it out with a gasp and dropped a handful of other books just to open it up and look into it again … I read this book to pieces when I was a kid.” — Kim Samsin, blogger