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Gr 7 Up—This is a story of one misfortune after another. As the book opens, Ry, a 16-year-old Wisconsin resident en route to camp, is left behind in Middle-of-Nowhere, MT, as his stalled train pulls out and he recounts the events that led him to leave the train in the first place. Bad goes to worse: he loses a shoe and his phone charger, his grandfather back home is injured, and his parents ar...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

"Sometimes, when something really out of the ordinary happens, like you get off your train and it leaves without you and you trudge for hours without food through an alien landscape, the things that happen after that can seem less strange just by comparison." Less strange, perhaps, but nothing in a Lynne Rae Perkins novel is ever really ordinary. In her Newbery-winning Criss Cross (rev. 9/05), her unsurpassed gift for description infused the everyday activities...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

On his way to summer camp, fifteen-year-old Ry discovers that the camp has gone out of business; when he hops off the tra...Log In or Sign Up to Read More