If i ever get out of here: a novel with paintings - eric gansworth

Lewis Shoe Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof.

What hes not used to is white people being nice to him -- people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force.

As the boys connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his familys poverty from George.

He also has to deal with the vicious Evan Reininger, who makes Lewis the special target of his wrath.

But when everyone else is on Evans side, how can he be defeated? And if George finds out the truth about Lewiss home -- will he still be his friend?.