![]() ![]() Her mother enjoys a refrigerator full of beer and her mood shifts vary between a sorry drunk and an angry drunk. ![]() He isn't a relative, thank God, because Velveeta's relatives tend to let her down. Velveeta is hiding out in Calvin's trailer where she keeps the scarf collection that Calvin gave her when his wife died. The biggest blow of all is that his beloved dog, Rosco, the one thing he has to hold onto in his lonely world, has gone missing. Travis is a big, strong kid whose temper can get the best of him especially because since his father crashed into a tree, his mother is gone, and now he's living life with his alcoholic grandfather. Obviously there is more to this story and Travis, with a heart the size of Texas, eventually finds the owner of that shoe and gives him back his stolen property. As he opens his locker, a shoe slams into the metal next to him and he finds a sneaker.a really nice sneaker lying there. ![]() This is the painful world thirteen-year-old Travis Roberts is meeting. ![]()
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