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Follow Oak, a young man on a journey to find himself amid the echoes of his past. Set against the backdrop of a world where nature holds secrets and mysteries unfold, Oak's adventure is one of discovery, identity, and the search for a place to call home. Along the way, he encounters unexpected friends and challenges, each bringing him closer to the truths about his family and himself.

Written in 1954, this controversial story cracked down on the public school system and dramatized student violence as no other novel of its time did. Hunter used his own teaching experience to create protagonist Richard Dadier, who lands his first real job as an English teacher at North Manual Trades High School in New York City. Dadier knows the students here will be tough, but nothing has prepared him for the world he enters.

Shaken by problems at home, confused by the motives of a new love, and reeling from a public meltdown, high school hockey star Walt McNamara joins an exclusive new leadership program controlled by the ultra-wealthy summer residents of Whaleback Island, a granite and spruce oasis off the coast of Maine. But this is no paradise; secrets lurk in its murky waters.