Books like California Blue

This is a very special little book.It is apparently out of print and has been suggested for young adult audiences. I think the only reason for that limitation is that it is about a young adult. I found this book in our public library's book shop and in reading the summary found that it was about a high school junior that was a good distance runner, had a compulsion for nature and natural things and had a hard demanding father. Since all of those issues were part of my childhood, I couldn't help paying my 50 cents and buying the book. David Klass must of been a distance runner, because I have never heard the emotions that one has at the end of a long grueling run so well described. But the adventure of watching a boy grow into a man within a week is told very sensitively and doesn't fit with the sterotypes of our current world. A delightful book that I will read again.