Jack isn’t
like most eleven-year olds. His mom has
“spinning” episodes when her mind spins out of control because she fails to
take her medication properly. She has
one of these “episodes” when Jack and she are on vacation at Acadia National
Park near Bar Harbor, Maine. Jack wakes
up in his small Hubba tent to find his mother has left him alone at the
campsite. When he gets his wits about
him, he phones her cell phone and leaves a message, “Where are you?” His mom never responds to his call.
Jack fends
for himself--desperate to keep this abandonment from an authority figure. He fears his mom will be arrested and he will
be permanently removed from her care. He
has no one else who can take him in as his mom has told Jack his grandmother can’t be trusted.
But how does
an 11 year-old without any money survive by himself so far from home? Will he resort to stealing food? Lying?
Will anyone help him? And just
where has his mother spun away to this time?
Small as an Elephant is a truly delightful, dear story of
a young boy struggling to protect his mother yet fending for himself.
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