Greyhound - Steffan Piper

Ushered out from his Stockton, California home by his emotionally detached mother and
her latest boyfriend, twelve-year-old Sebastien Ranes must fend for himself and
travel two thousand miles across the country. He is on his way to live with his
grandmother and sister in Pennsylvania. Along the way, he will learn that sometimes
caring, guidance and understanding can come from some unlikely people.

Marcus, a fellow bus passenger, is a man who has been neglected more by society
than his family. As a young black ex-con, he is not the epitome of the person most
would pick as a chaperone for their child's cross country trip. Yet rather than be
held apart by their differences, Marcus and Sebastien are drawn together by the
things that make us all alike.

Along the way, he acts as both guide and protector, as Virgil was to Dante and Jim
to Huck Finn. Imparting his own style of wisdom, he shows Sebastien that, despite the
darker parts of the human condition, people can and do care for one another. This is
a modern day journey not just from one house to another. This is a journey taken by a
young boy into manhood, and by the reader into his world. Like every trip, there are
many stops along the way. But this journey differs in the way young Sebastien arrives
at his destination. Greyhound is the story of this journey.