No Place Like Home -- James Bird, Hardcover

A middle-grade novel by James Bird about homelessness and hope.

When home is a car, life is unpredictable. School, friends, and three meals a day aren't guaranteed. Not every town has a shelter where a family can sleep for a night or two, and places with parking lots don't welcome overnight stays.

Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother are trying to get to Los Angeles, where they hope an uncle and a new life are waiting. Emjay has taken to disappearing for days, slowing down the family's progress and adding to their worry.

Then Opin finds a stray dog who needs him as much as he needs her, and his longing for a stable home intensifies, as his brother's reckless ways hit a new high. Opin makes a new friend in the shelter, but shelters don't allow dogs...

Will anything other than a real home ever be enough?

Author: James Bird
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Published: 08/08/2023
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.81w x 1.07d
ISBN: 9781250877628
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.9
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 519667 / No Place Like Home


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/03/2023
Booklist 08/01/2023 pg. 52

About the Author
James Bird is the author of The Brave, a Book Riot Best Book of 2020 and praised as "full of heart, authenticity, and courage" by School Library Journal in a starred review, and The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls, which Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books called "grounded in love." He is also a screenwriter and director at the independent film company, Zombot Pictures. Originally from California, James Bird is of Ojibwe descent, and now lives in Massachusetts with his wife, the author and actor Adriana Mather, and their son.