ABANDONED. Historical Adventure novel, early 1900s, WW1. Mom (who's going to have a woman's medical operation) sends her son via bus to live with her sister and husband German sailor.

[David]

can't figure out how to do that
this book is fiction / adventure

[David]

thanks, littlebluejay

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

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[Kris]

David is the OP (original poster).

I copied genre and plot details to the header/ topic title. Feel free to edit it. Can you post the rest of your book description?

Is this book for kids, teens or adults? How old is the son?

Location?

[Kris]

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[SCB]

Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig

[Kris]

Update: SCB's suggestion of Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig looks promising.

Google Books preview:

https://books.google.com/books?id=Gut... There are different cover images.

Kirkus Review:

Two long-distance bus trips give an 11-year-old new horizons and run a lively gamut through mid-20th-century American life. Orphaned Donal Cameron is miserable about being sent off to Wisconsin in June 1951 to stay with a great-aunt he’s never met while his grandmother has surgery back in Gros Ventre, Montana (quote from book: "surgery ... I did not fully understand the "female trouble" discovered in her by some doctor at the Columbus Hospital in Great Falls"), though the trip does give him a chance to exercise his overactive imagination with entirely fictional accounts of his antecedents and destination, which he recites to unwary fellow passengers. By the time the bus pulls into Manitowoc, Donal has collected a batch of new signatures and maxims for his cherished autograph book, received his first real kiss from a good-hearted waitress named Letty, and met her boyfriend, Harv, on his way back to jail, accompanied by a mean-spirited sheriff who will be troubling Donal again. ... Bossy Aunt Kate finds Donal an unbearable trial and quickly decides to send him back to Montana, which means to foster care. Fortunately, the boy has bonded with Kate’s other victim, her husband, Herman, who turns up on the bus with the welcome news that he intercepted her letter to the state authorities. The pair sets off for a summer of adventures...

[Kris]

LittleBlueJay (OP) left the group. Moving to Abandoned folder.