New York Times Best Seller "Navigating Early" by Clare Vanderpool, Newbery
Medalist for" Moon Over Manifest," is an odyssey-like adventure of two boys'
incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with pirates, buried
secrets, and extraordinary encounters.
At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly
uprooted after his mother's death and placed in a boy's boarding school in
Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the
number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of a great black
bear in the nearby mountains. Newcomer Jack feels lost yet can't