This was an adventure.
I found the PDF by chance on Anna's Archive, but the images that made it up were insanely large, and it kept crashing AbbyFR. When I did finally persuade the program to spit out an EPUB, it turned out to be by far the worst OCR job I'd ever seen. Fortunately, the PDF allowed me to highlight text, and so I ended up copy/pasting the entire book into Sigil.
The upside is that this is probably the least error-strewn ebook I've ever edited and posted, so maybe that's a method I ought to use all he time!
Happily I enjoyed the book very much. The story is narrated by Danny from the longer perspective of early middle age, and the author succeeds in giving us a rounded portrait of this inteligent and sensitive thirteen-year-old. He is less successful withTom, however, although that might be because he tries to make the narrator speak from the viewpoint of his younger self with the addition of insights acquired with age and maturity. The young Danny wouldn't have thought about analysing Tom's motivation or thought processes, so there's nothing about those.
There are a couple of massive - and sometimes intrusive - subplots: Danny is a potential champion diver, and Tom has unwisely got involved with a ruthless crowd of gansters, and most of the time he's trying to tap-dance around them. Danny, being in love with Tom, refuses to stay out of these matters with predictable consequences.
No spoilers from me, but it's a well-paced novel with a skilfully-worked climax, and I recommend it to you
