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And then, boom! / Lisa Fipps.
Poverty-stricken Joseph bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593406328 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 244 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2024.
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| Subject: | Dysfunctional families > Juvenile fiction. Poverty > Juvenile fiction. Grief > Juvenile fiction. Resilience (Personality trait) > Juvenile fiction. Mobile home living > Juvenile fiction. |
| Genre: | Novels in verse. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | J FIC Fipps | 31681030040216 | JFIC | Available | - |
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Poverty-stricken Joseph bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him. - Penguin Putnam
A gripping new novel in verse by the author of the Printz Honor-winning Starfish, featuring a poverty-stricken boy who bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him
Joe Oak is used to living on unsteady ground. His mom canât be depended on as she never stays around long once she gets âthe itch,â and now he and his beloved grandmother find themselves without a home. Fortunately, Joe has an outlet in his journals and drawings and takes comfort from the lessons of comic booksâsuperheroes have a lot of âand then, boomâ moments, where everything threatens to go bust but somehow they land on their feet. And that seems to happen a lot to Joe too, as in this crisis his friend Nick helps them find a home in his trailer park. But things fall apart again when Joe is suddenly left to fend for himself. He doesnât tell anyone heâs on his own, as he fears foster care and has hope his mom will come back. But time is running outâbills are piling up, the electricityâs been shut off, and the school yearâs about to end, meaning no more free meals. The struggle to feed himself gets intense, and Joe finds himself dumpster diving for meals. Heâs never felt so aloneâuntil an emaciated little dog and her two tiny pups cross his path. And fate has even more in store for Joe, because an actual tornado is about to hit homeâand just when it seems all is lost, his life turns in a direction that he never could have predicted.
