Where the River Begins -Patricia St John

“What did you hear, you little Twerp?” Tyke asked, holding Francis’s wrists and looking at him with narrowed eyes.
‘I heard about the phone booth, and Tyke, let me join your gang! If you want to smash phone booths, I could help you. I can run fast. I’m the fastest under eleven in the school. I could watch out and warn you and you could smash anything you wanted.’
A confused and misguided youngster stays with a Christian family while his mother is institutionalized. The family helps him discover the source of the nearby river and the source of the Christian life.

Pub Date: June 1, 1980