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Availability:In StockContributor:Gary D. SchmidtAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2015-10-06Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Clarion BooksISBN-13:9780544462229ISBN-10:054446222XUPC:9780544462229Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Family, Social ThemesBook Topic:Orphans & Foster Homes, Physical & Emotional Abuse (see also Social Themes, FriendshipSize:8.30 x 5.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCYXPPYCB8

In this riveting novel, two boys discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires.

Two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter.

After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost.

When Jack meets his new foster brother, he knows three things about him:

    Joseph almost killed a teacher.He was incarcerated at a place called Stone Mountain.He has a daughter. Her name is Jupiter. And he has never seen her.

What Jack doesn't know, at first, is how desperate Joseph is to find his baby girl. Or how urgently he, Jack, will want to help.

But the past can't be shaken off. Even as new bonds form, old wounds reopen. The search for Jupiter demands more from Jack than he can imagine.

This tender, heartbreaking novel is Gary D. Schmidt at his best. He is the author of the Printz Honor and Newbery Honor Book Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy; Okay for Now, a National Book Award finalist; and The Wednesday Wars, a Newbery Honor Book, among his many acclaimed novels for young readers.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Clarion BooksISBN-13:9780544462229ISBN-10:054446222XUPC:9780544462229Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Family, Social ThemesBook Topic:Orphans & Foster Homes, Physical & Emotional Abuse (see also Social Themes, FriendshipSize:8.30 x 5.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCYXPPYCB8
Gary D. Schmidt is the best-selling author of Okay for Now, the Newbery Honor and Printz Honor book Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, and the Newbery Honor book The Wednesday Wars. He lives in Alto, Michigan, and is a professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids. Visit www.hmhbooks.com/schmidt.
Publisher: Clarion Books

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