Orbiting Jupiter / Gary D. Schmidt.
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TextPublisher: Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 183 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780544462229
- 054446222X
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Northport Library | YA Fiction | Schmidt, Gary | Checked out | 05/17/2024 | 33111007364793 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost.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.
"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"-- Provided by publisher.
Joseph was a father at thirteen, but has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. He has spent time in a juvenile facility, and now is with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Damaged and withdrawn, Joseph meets twelve-year-old Jack, Together they discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires when Joseph decides to find his baby at any cost.