Two Yellow Cabooses - by Levi Bronze (Paperback)

About the Book

Everyone needs a helping hand. Mickey Tucker is a teenager who needs much more... he needs Abe Loomis.

Book Synopsis

Sometimes home in Alabama is not so sweet...

A passing train pulling two yellow cabooses guarantees a promising future. So says the local legend. Though Mickey's mom witnessed the rare occurrence when she was a senior in high school, life for the two of them is anything BUT. No man in the home. Welfare. No car. Clothes from the local Methodist mission. A dumpy trailer in a trailer park. And all the labels and stereotypes that come with life at the poverty line for white folks. At school, twelve-year-old Mickey is nameless, powerless, and invisible.

Things take a turn for the better when Mickey meets Abe, a resourceful black man and former Navy SEAL. A fast friendship develops, and Abe begins filling the fatherless void in Mickey's life. In his determination to help Mickey rise above his disadvantages, Abe not only disrupts the small Alabama town's social structure, but also incites its wealthiest and most malevolent citizen.

Now forced to run the gauntlet, it will take all of Abe's skills and then some if he and Mickey are to survive.

Review Quotes

"An enthralling tale of compassion, selflessness and justice." -Luke Swanson, author of The Other Hamlet Brother

"Two yellow Cabooses belongs on the bookshelves of everyone who ever struggled to make life better for themselves and the people around them." -Andrew Brandt, Pencraft Award-winning author of Mixtape for the End of the World

"A gripping character-driven tale of two unlikely friends. If you are a fan of John Grisham or John Irving, you will love this book, it belongs on the same shelf." -Bill Schweitzer, author of Doves in a Tempest