Teacup full of roses /
Sharon Bell Mathis.
- New York : Puffin Books, 1987, c1972.
- 125 p ; 21 cm.
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Joe's decision to leave home is prompted by despair over his mother's blindness to his younger brother's talents and his older brother's drug addiction.