Easy Avenue

Hubbo O'Driscoll is torn between his poor but fun friends and family and the shallow but rich kids at his school.Hubbo's first year in high school is off to a bad start as he veers wildly between the lovely Fleurette Featherstone Fitchell and the ever more enticing gang at the exclusive Hi-Y Club. Just then a mysterious benefactor appears and Hubbo gets a new job working for the elegant, elderly, and very rich Miss Collar-Cuff.An improbable surprise ending completes this wonderfully comic novel, which won the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award.