This book was made into a movie.It tells the story of Newt Winger and his years growing up in Fort Scott,Kansas.A book I'll never forget.

"If you got a battle to fight,you cain't rightfully ask the Lord to help you and not the other fella.Now can you?...No,son you got to fight and hope God likes the way you're using your fists.And that goes for the boy you're fightin...I hope you won't have to stay here all your life,Newt.It ain't a all-good place and it ain't a all-bad place.But you can learn just as much here about people and things as you can learn any place else.Cherokee Flats is sort like a fruit tree.Some of the people are good and some of the people are bad-just like the fruit on a tree...No matter if you go or stay,think of it like that till the day you die--let it be your learnin' tree". (via amazon.com)