Tales from the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973
by John Barnes and published by Viking Children's Books, a division of Penguin Young Reader's Group
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In September 1973, as the school year begins in his depressed Ohio town, high-school senior Kurt Shoemaker determines to be "normal," despite his chaotic home life with his volatile, alcoholic mother and the deep loyalty and affection he has for his friends in the therapy group dubbed the Madman Underground.