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No Place Like Home

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A middle-grade novel by James Bird about homelessness and hope.When home is a car, life is unpredictable. School, friends, and three meals a day aren't guaranteed. Not every town has a shelter where a family can sleep for a night or two, and places with parking lots don't welcome overnight stays.Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother are trying to get to Los Angeles, where they hope an uncle and a new life are waiting. Emjay has taken to disappearing for days, slowing down the family's progress and adding to their worry. Then Opin finds a stray dog who needs him as much as he needs her, and his longing for a stable home intensifies, as his brother's reckless ways hit a new high. Opin makes a new friend in the shelter, but shelters don't allow dogs...Will anything other than a real home ever be enough?

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781250877628
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 320
  • Udgivet:
  • 8. august 2023
  • Størrelse:
  • 148x27x217 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 390 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: Ukendt - mangler pt.

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A middle-grade novel by James Bird about homelessness and hope.When home is a car, life is unpredictable. School, friends, and three meals a day aren't guaranteed. Not every town has a shelter where a family can sleep for a night or two, and places with parking lots don't welcome overnight stays.Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother are trying to get to Los Angeles, where they hope an uncle and a new life are waiting. Emjay has taken to disappearing for days, slowing down the family's progress and adding to their worry. Then Opin finds a stray dog who needs him as much as he needs her, and his longing for a stable home intensifies, as his brother's reckless ways hit a new high. Opin makes a new friend in the shelter, but shelters don't allow dogs...Will anything other than a real home ever be enough?

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