I don't give out five stars easily, but Phil Callaway earned every bit of it with this big-hearted story. Callaway hits the nail on the head in his descriptions of small town life, the changing evangelical church of the seventies, and the growing pains of a junior-high-age boy. The story moves effortlessly back and forth between the lighthearted and the serious. At the end, we see a moving picture of God's grace and what it means for us. Everyone will be able to identify with something in this story, and many may find that their outlook on life has been changed by reading it.