02062cam a2200397 4500 357752056 TxAuBib 120516s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012014973 9780385742092 hbk. 0385742096 hbk. 9780375990403 glb 0375990402 glb 9780307974129 ebk. 030797412X ebk. (OCoLC)793220481 DLC DLC TnLvILS TxAuBib Vanderpool, Clare. Navigating Early / Clare Vanderpool. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, 2013. 306 p. ; 22 cm. "At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother's death and placed in a boy's boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of a great black bear in the nearby mountains. Newcomer Jack feels lost yet can't help being drawn to Early, who won't believe what everyone accepts to be the truth about the Great Appalachian Bear, Timber Rattlesnakes, and the legendary school hero known as The Fish, who never returned from the war. When the boys find themselves unexpectedly alone at school, they embark on a quest on the Appalachian Trail in search of the great black bear. But what they are searching for is sometimes different from what they find."--Provided by publisher. 5-up. Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 5.2 11.0 156085. Boarding schools. Schools. Eccentrics and eccentricities. Adventure and adventurers. JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century Juvenile fiction. Maine. Maine. Juvenile fiction. Appalachian Trail. Adventure stories. QS7