Front Street, Asheville, NC, 2004, 1^st thus.  ISBN 1-932425-08-X.  Trade soft cover, 128 pages.  Unread copy, not remaindered.  ‘Albert Scully is the quintessential miserable teenager.  He considers himself the “All-American” failure until he meets Mrs. Orpha Woodfin, an eighty-year-old neighborhood eccentric who helps him to see the value of being an individual.  Originally published in 1968 … heralded the beginning of books written specifically for young adults.’ (from rear wrap)