Delinquency Lessons gives a rare glimpse into the lives of boys left to their own dubious devices. Wiley Reed is a hick from Appalachia trucked up to Bound Brook, New Jersey with his family and just trying to make it back. Join Weeds, his savvy big sister Beulah, and their friends Newsy the savant and tough guy Mazurk on this journey as the crow really flies for the working poor: A little trouble here, a little football there, even some good lovin' in this intimate if precipitous romp through the sixties and seventies when kids were kids, parents were gone, and big black birds were watching.