I Adam Author:Jean Fritz When Adam Crane finished school in 1850, he had, he figured, graduated to manhood, a state he could manage with ease. While some of his friends answered the call of the sea and others turned west to the undeveloped choice to make. — He had always taken for granted that his future, clear and uncomplicated, lay inland on the new farm his family had... more » dreamed of for years. Adam precedes his family to the farm and through a series of adventures realizes, as many boys have before and since, that manhood is to be won and that dreams can change.« less