Status
Available
Call number
Description
When twelve-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in a small town in North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much and Eric runs away.
Collection
Publication
Scholastic (2012), 177 pages
Awards
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Nominee — 2014)
Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award (Nominee — 2014)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2015)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 2014)
Great Stone Face Book Award (Nominee — 2013)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2014)
Iowa Teen Award (Nominee — 2014)
Nēnē Award (Nominee — 2014)
South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards (Nominee — 2013)
North Carolina Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2014)
Colorado Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2014)
Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Nominee — 2015)
The Best Children's Books of the Year (Nine to Twelve — 2012)
Books From All 50 States (and Washington, D.C.!) (North Dakota)
Idaho Battle of the Books (Elementary — 2019)
Language
Physical description
177 p.; 8.7 inches
ISBN
0545486602 / 9780545486606
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