Orbiting Jupiter Orbiting Jupiter

Orbiting Jupiter

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Publisher Description

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 Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost.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.

GENRE
Young Adult
RELEASED
2015
October 6
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
192
Pages
PUBLISHER
Clarion Books
SELLER
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
SIZE
8.5
MB
AUDIENCE
Seventh Grade

Customer Reviews

Zeze_<3 ,

Heartwarming and Beautiful

I didn’t expect to cry, but I did. I’m not going to spoil this for anyone, but the way Gary wrote this book, the authors grew to love Joseph just like him.

I’m terms of Joseph, we grew to “have his back.”

More Books by Gary D. Schmidt

The Wednesday Wars The Wednesday Wars
2009
Okay for Now Okay for Now
2011
First Boy First Boy
2007
Just Like That Just Like That
2021
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
2004
The Labors of Hercules Beal The Labors of Hercules Beal
2023

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