ISBN: 0544462645 9780544462649

Category: Young Adult Fiction / Family / Orphans & Foster Homes

Page count: 192

<p>In this riveting novel, two boys discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires.</p><p>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. </p><p>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 Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost. </p><p>When Jack meets his new foster brother, he knows three things about him:</p><ul><li>Joseph almost killed a teacher.</li><li>He was incarcerated at a place called Stone Mountain.</li><li>He has a daughter. Her name is Jupiter. And he has never seen her.</li></ul><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>