A middle grade Road novel about a boy stuck on a summer trip with his offbeat auto-mechanic cousins--a humor- and heart-filled journey that leads the boy to an unexpected confrontation with some broken-down parts of himself.
The Balls are "Ford Men"; their calling in life is to restore old Ford car.
After eleven-year-old June Ball\'s dad disappears without so much as a goodbye note, June\'s mother sends him on the Road with his adult cousins, mechanics Thomas and Cornell Ball.
A middle grade Road novel about a boy stuck on a summer trip with his offbeat auto-mechanic cousins--a humor- and heart-filled journey that leads the boy to an unexpected confrontation with some broken-down parts of himself