No Place Like Home

Bird, James

ISBN 10: 125087761X / ISBN 13: 9781250877611

Published by Square Fish, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Place Like Home
• Publisher: Square Fish
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 125087761X
• ISBN 13: 9781250877611
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

An unhoused boy and his family search for stability in this middle-grade novel praised as "big-hearted" and "emotionally resonant."

Perfect for back-to-school reading.

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?

About the Author

James Bird's debut middle-grade novel, The Brave, was a Book Riot Best Book of 2020. He is also a screenwriter and director at the independent film company, Zombot Pictures; his films include We Are Boats and Honeyglue. Originally from California, James Bird is of Ojibwe descent, and now lives in Massachusetts with his wife, the author and actor Adriana Mather, and their son.