The Visitor in the Plaid Pants

Curtis is twelve and he's a believer. He believes something that no respecting teen would ever come within a thousand miles of believing and maintain any credibility as some kind of functioning member of society. A least that society contained within the four walls of an American junior high. But Curtis believes it. And he has paid a price for that. His friends have tried to talk him out of it. They have reasoned with him and made the best arguments they could make. And his parents, like any good parents in the twenty-first century do not want their son saddled with anything that would be detrimental to his well-being, to his advancement. They have even consulted a psychiatrist about it. But nothing has come of it. Curtis still believes. He believes in Santa Claus. Until, however, his friend achieves a breakthrough. Now Curtis's whole world has changed. That is, until a strange man shows up wearing plaid pants. From the author of North's End.