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Author Schmidt, Gary D.

Title Orbiting Jupiter / Gary D. Schmidt.

Imprint Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Fiction  RE F SCHMIDT    ---  Available
Description 183 p. ; 21 cm.
Indexed In: School Library Journal starred, August 2015
Booklist starred, September 2015
Pub Weekly, August 2015
Kirkus Starred, July 2015
New York Times, November 2015
Horn Book, November 2015
Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2015
Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2015
Library Media Connection, December 2015
Summary "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.
Audience Young Adult Follett School Solutions.
740 Lexile.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 4.4 4.0 176660. 9
Subject Friendship -- Fiction.
Stress (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Child abuse -- Fiction.
Teenage fathers -- Fiction.
Foster home care -- Fiction.
ISBN 9780544938397

 
    
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