Bless the Beasts & Children
Glendon Swarthout
192 pages
The neglected attendees of the Box Canyon Boys Camp find their lives turned around by Cotton, who, in a hot-wired pickup, challenges them to join efforts to save a herd of buffalo and discover themselves in the process.
This book serves as a thinly veiled allegory of the New Testament, but my memory of it is that it was quite terrible.