Runt
by V.M. Caldwell
The story of a loner’s search for a family to call his own.
Not long after moving into a trailer with his sister and her menacing
boyfriend, Runt first meets Mitch, but the last thing he is looking for
is a friend—he doesn’t know a soul in town, and he’s happy keeping it
that way. Runt feels like a burden to his sister, so he does what any
self-respecting twelve-year-old with no job, no parents, and no
connections would do: he starts saving money and hatching a plan of
escape. Just when he is getting used to his loner lifestyle, though,
Mitch starts to pop up.
At first, Runt doesn’t know what to make of this guy, with his tall
body folded into a wheelchair and wispy orange hair on the crown of his
head. Then Mitch explains why he isn’t in school—“doctor’s
appointments and visits from nutritionists and psychologists”—and Runt
realizes that his new friend’s problems are far worse than anything he
had imagined.
As their friendship deepens, Mitch struggles with the cancer that is
spreading throughout his body, and Runt begins, helped along by Mitch’s
online wizardry and constant humor, to search for a new place to live. 
V.M. Caldwell
Author's Bio:V.M. Caldwell taught science for fifteen years. The mother of two adopted children, she wrote her first novel, The Ocean Within, as an exercise in empathy while waiting for her second son to arrive from India. Also the author of Tides, she lives in upstate New York.
Quotes:Praise for V.M. Caldwell's Previous Work:
"An insightful story filled with all of the mundane details that make a novel rich and real. . . . but the emotions and actions always ring true."—Library Journal
"Caldwell
creates an unusually clear portrait of a child who has either forgotten
or never learned how to be part of a family, and surrounds her with an
appealingly lively supporting cast of tolerant but vulnerable peers."—Booklist
"A finely crafted first novel that looks at family and new opportunities from the perspective of a foster child. . . . absorbed young readers will find they are holding their breath at the end."—Kirkus Reviews
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