A Wolf in the Basement
(Book)

"Kepler Aldebaran Brennen (Bach), age fourteen, already knows enough about loss. His parents died when he was five. What follows in the years between, consisted of a hostile environment (described in flashback images) and then foster homes of neglect and lack of understanding. In a desperate effort to find a "real" existence, Bach fixes a junkyard jeep for his escape. Instead, he accidentally hits fifteen-year-old Tyler Chezwick. The compassionate Chezwick family eventually risk a leap of faith by taking in Bach while "things get decided for him." Bach struggles between his increasing happiness within a real family, the guilt of the accident and the shadow of the Giant who strangles his belief that a kid like himself could be loved." -- Amazon.com.