Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
Bud and Scooter, two teenaged cousins, are making the trip of their young lives in
the midst of the Great Depression. Their family friend in rural Florida, Jake Gilchrist,
head of a poor family with three small children, has died while visiting his sick mother on
Long Island. His wife cannot afford to have his body shipped back by train for burial, so
Bud and Scooter volunteer for a goodwill mission and grand adventure: they take Bud's
father's pickup truck, drive a thousand miles up US 1, pick up Jake's body, pack it in ice,
and transport it back to Florida. Along the way they meet people (both common and
extraordinary), they work out their differences (with words and with fists), they come
face-to-face with beauty and goodness as well as with poverty and evil.. .and they get to
see the Empire State Building.
the midst of the Great Depression. Their family friend in rural Florida, Jake Gilchrist,
head of a poor family with three small children, has died while visiting his sick mother on
Long Island. His wife cannot afford to have his body shipped back by train for burial, so
Bud and Scooter volunteer for a goodwill mission and grand adventure: they take Bud's
father's pickup truck, drive a thousand miles up US 1, pick up Jake's body, pack it in ice,
and transport it back to Florida. Along the way they meet people (both common and
extraordinary), they work out their differences (with words and with fists), they come
face-to-face with beauty and goodness as well as with poverty and evil.. .and they get to
see the Empire State Building.
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