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Unhooking the Moon by Gregory Hughes (view source)
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|pages=240
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|website=http://www.quercusbooks.co.uk/book.php?id=9781849162951
|date=April 2010
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The Rat and Bob are prairie children. Winnipeg is a land ''so flat you can watch your dog run away for three days''. When their father dies and they're orphaned, they are determined to avoid a children's home at all costs and embark upon a road trip to New York City, in search of their long-lost uncle. Bob is pretty much the hanger-on - he knows that the Rat is a special kid who would never make it in an institution and so he puts his fears aside to follow his singular sister.
Beeping recommended!
My thanks to the good people at Quercus for sending the book. We also have a review of [[Summertime of the Dead by Gregory Hughes]].
If road trips and wonderful central characters are their thing, then we can also recommend [[Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd]], which also combines pathos and humour, and [[The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff]], which has a romantic, fable-come-quest feel.
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