After Grandma Mary dies, sixteen year old JP's safe, secure world quickly unravels. He finds himself living in complete chaos when his mother wins a farmhouse in an essay contest and insists on sharing her good fortune with other neighbourhood outcasts. Suddenly there are no rules, and the house is filled with poets, musicians, a reformed drug addict, an abused teen, and too many others who seem to have replaced JP and his father in his mother's life. JP longs for his family to be restored to what it once was. But then somehow, amid the madness, his idea of family is redefined in ways he never expected.

 

There are 276 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Harcourt Children's Books .

HAN NOLAN is the author of six other highly acclaimed novels published by Harcourt.