At Hellenweiler, a reformatory for second-offenders, fourteen-year-old Hal Mitchell will soon be free if he can avoid the gang violence of his fellow inmates, but the real enemy may lie elsewhere.

For as long as Moon can remember, he as lived in the forest in a shelter with his father. They keep to themselves, aside from occasional trips to the general store. When Moon's father dies, moon is quickly caught up in a world he doesn't know or understand; he's become property of the government he's been avoiding all his life. As the spirited and resourceful Moon encounters constables, jails, institutions, lawyers, true friends, and true enemies,...