When Pippa and Jack's mother died of cancer their world seemed to fall apart: Pippa stopped talking altogether, and Jack started picking fights, and neither of them knows how to cope with the painful and awkward sympathy from their friends and classmates--but when they learn that their father's business is failing and he is growing desperate for money they realize that there is a possibility that they will lose another parent, this time to jail.
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call number/section: 1000
subjects: father-child relationship, fiction, siblings, family life, bank robberies, friendship, families, father and child, brothers and sisters, bereavement