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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-57131-661-5
Pages: 208
Publish Date: Dec, 2006
Genre: Young Readers
Runt
BY V.M. Caldwell
Not long after moving into a trailer with his sister and her menacing boyfriend, Runt first meets Mitch, but the last thing he is looking for is a friend—he doesn’t know a soul in town, and he’s happy keeping it that way. Runt feels like a burden to his sister, so he does what any self-respecting twelve-year-old with no job, no parents, and no connections would do: he starts saving money and hatching a plan of escape. Just when he is getting used to his loner lifestyle, though, Mitch starts to pop up.
The story of a loner’s search for a family to call his own.
At first, Runt doesn’t know what to make of this guy, with his tall body folded into a wheelchair and wispy orange hair on the crown of his head. Then Mitch explains why he isn’t in school—“doctor’s appointments and visits from nutritionists and psychologists”—and Runt realizes that his new friend’s problems are far worse than anything he had imagined.
As their friendship deepens, Mitch struggles with the cancer that is spreading throughout his body, and Runt begins, helped along by Mitch’s online wizardry and constant humor, to search for a new place to live.
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