T-MODEL TOMMY

Any Stephen Meader book has all the elements one wishes boys' books should have, -- a good yarn, red-blooded characters, and -- in many instances -- good factual background. This seems at times a bit melodramatic, but it makes good reading. The story of a boy earning his living, and his mother's, by means of any and every job he and his faithful and battered truck can undertake. The setting is the truck farming section of south Jersey -- and the mining districts of Pennsylvania.