orbiting jupiter ✵ g.d.smith
When Jack meets his new foster brother, he already knows three things about him: Joseph almost killed a teacher. He was incarcerated at a place called Stone Mountain. He has a daughter. Her name is Jupiter. And he has never seen her. What Jack doesn’t know, at first, is how desperate Joseph is to find his baby girl. Or how urgently he, Jack, will want to help. But the past can’t be shaken off. Even as new bonds form, old wounds reopen. The search for Jupiter demands more from Jack than he can imagine. (Source: GoodReads ) If I was in charge of what kind of books kids should read in school (which SADLY I am not), I'd say they should read this one. This is a an incredibly insightful novel, of what life for some children is like, the lives of kids we don't really hear an awful lot about. But we should hear about them, because they exist and this it's real and important. This book will tear your soul and heart apart and you'll shed a tea...