Amazon.com description: Product Description: It is 1948. The war is over and the future looks bright. Truman is about to get elected in an upset victory and, equally surprising, Kansans are about to repeal prohibition after seventy years. But all is not right in a little town straddling the junction of Mud Creek and the Cottonwood River. The local drunk is found hanging from the Santa Fe Railroad Bridge. Turmoil erupts between the sheriff and the local bootlegger. Fearful and uncertain, Johnny, the fifteen year-old protagonist, hunts for the truth and finds a lot of trouble along the way. Colored by a significant time in history and flavored by the rural folk that people it, Moonshine Harvest is a story full of adventure combined with provincial political attitudes, fundamentalist dogma and racial bigotry. Bringing humor and depth to the story, the characters walk and talk like Kansans in the 1940's. Moonshine Harvest won an Editor's Choice Award at the 2005 San Diego State University Writer's Conference and was nominated a finalist in the Unpublished Young Adult Competition of the 2005 San Diego Book Awards.