"This edition is available for distribution only through the school market"--Cover verso.
Originally published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011.
Summary
When twelve-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in a small town in North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much, and Eric runs away.