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Orbiting Jupiter
Gary D. Schmidt
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Orbiting Jupiter

Orbiting Jupiter

Gary D. Schmidt

4.23 · how good
Sweet · 1.00 spice

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⚠ Physical Assault⚠ Grief / Loss⚠ Child Abuse⚠ Child Death⚠ Animal Death⚠ Death⚠ Emotional Abuse⚠ Bullying

A quiet, deeply affecting middle-grade/YA novel narrated by twelve-year-old Jack, whose family takes in Joseph, a troubled fourteen-year-old who has just been released from a juvenile facility and who fathered a daughter named Jupiter he has never been allowed to see. As Jack and Joseph form an unlikely bond on the family's dairy farm in rural Maine, the story follows Joseph's desperate, obstacle-filled effort to find and connect with his baby girl. It is a spare, emotionally powerful story about trauma, found family, and the cost of love rather than a romance.

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