Abruptly placed in a boy's boarding school in Maine after his mother's death at the end of World War II, Kansas youth Jack Baker befriends Early Auden, an unusual boy with whom Jack embarks on a quest along the Appalachian Trail in search of a legendary great black bear. By the Newbery Medal-winning author of Moon Over Manifest.
- | Author: Clare Vanderpool
- | Publisher: Yearling
- | Publication Date: December 23, 2014
- | Number of Pages: 336 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0307930653
- | ISBN-13: 9780307930651