Margaret Standafer

"It's the summer of 1972, and Kansas wheat fields are baking under the relentless sun. Teenagers are celebrating the first taste of freedom as they line their pockets with newly printed driver's licenses and long-awaited paychecks. Days off are spent at the town's only lake, nights under the yellow lights of the drive-in restaurant. But Billy Tupper's life is a far cry from that of other teenagers. One mistake too many lands him in front of a judge...