Adam Rapp

The Copper Elephant is a young adult science fiction novel by Adam Rapp. It was published 2 November 1999 by Front Street, an imprint of Boyds Mills Press. The story is told from the perspective on an eleven-year-old girl, Whensday Bluehouse. She lives in a future ruled by a fascist regime that employs child slave …

Little Chicago is a 2002 novel by Adam Rapp. Little Chicago is a story told by eleven-year-old Gerald 'Blacky' Brown, a victim of sexual abuse and neglect. Blacky is taken to hospital to be examined, tells a social worker about the molestation, and at school he tells his best friend, Eric Duggan. But he is let down by …