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Orbiting Jupiter

  • Gary D. Schmidt

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Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he ll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice."

Genres

  • Child abuse
  • Emotional problems
  • Teenage fathers
  • Foster home care
  • Friendship
  • Fiction
  • Children's fiction
  • Friendship, fiction
  • Emotions, fiction
  • Child abuse, fiction
  • Fathers, fiction
  • Foster home care, fiction
  • Maine, fiction
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About the author

  • Gary D. Schmidt

    born 14 April 1957

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    26 ratings · 79 works

Editions

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    Turtleback

    May 23, 2017

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    2016

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    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

    2015

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    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers

    2015

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Andersen Press

2017

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    Recorded Books

    Feb 15, 2016