‘A heart-healing, mocs-on-the-ground story of music, family members and companionship.’ — Cynthia Leitich Smith, writer of TANTALIZE and RAIN IS NOT MY INDIAN NAME

Lewis ‘Footwear’ Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life within the Tuscarora Indian booking in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he’s not used to is normally white people being fine to him — people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently transferred to town using the Atmosphere Force. As the kids connect about If I Ever Get Out of Right here through their shared enthusiasm for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis must lie increasingly more to hide the truth of his family’s poverty from George. He also has to deal with the vicious Evan Reininger, who makes Lewis the special target of his wrath. However when everyone else is definitely on Evan’s side, how can he become defeated? And if George realizes the truth about Lewis’s home — will he still be his friend?

Acclaimed adult author Eric Gansworth makes his YA debut with this wry and powerful novel about friendship, memory, and the joy of rock ‘n’ move.