![]() ![]() Agent: Andrea Cascardi, Transatlantic Literary Agency. This multilayered, intricately plotted story has a kaleidoscopic effect, blurring the lines between reality and imagination, coincidence and fate. Jack agrees to accompany Early on his quest to rescue Pi, and as the boys head into the wilderness, their adventures have an eerie resemblance to Early’s stories about Pi, as do Jack and Early’s own sad histories. ![]() ![]() James Patterson The Washington Post, January 1, 2013: 'Clare Vanderpool deftly rows this complex, inventive novel her most recent since her Newbery-winning Moon Over Manifest to a tender, surprising and wholly satisfying ending. Early is obsessed with the number pi and believes that Pi is a boy on an epic journey, and in danger. Just the sort of book that saves lives by igniting a passion for reading. ![]() After his mother is buried, 13-year-old Jack-a clear-eyed narrator with a great sense of humor, despite his recent heartbreak-is sent to a Maine boarding school, where he meets an eccentric student named Early Auden, who might today be labeled autistic. Her words will come to have special meaning for readers spellbound by this atmospheric novel set at the end of WWII from Newbery Medalist Vanderpool (Moon over Manifest). When Jack Baker’s father sends him from his home in Kansas to attend a boys’ boarding school in Maine, Jack doesn’t know what to expect. Find the ways our paths cross, our lives intersect, and our hearts collide,” Jack’s mother told him before she died. From the author of Newbery Medal winner Moon Over Manifest comes the odyssey-like adventure of two boys’ incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail. “You have to look for the things that connect us all. ![]()
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