Here in the Real World by Sara Pennypacker

Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Ware can’t wait to spend the Florida summer with his grandmother, enjoying long hours free and alone. 4, 2020 An introverted boy fights to save an empty lot from auction. Thou shalt be always the champion of the Right and Good-and vows to save the lot. HERE IN THE REAL WORLD by Sara Pennypacker RELEASE DATE: Feb. As different as Ware and Jolene are, though, they have one thing in common: for them, the lot is a refuge.īut when their sanctuary is threatened, Ware looks to the knights' Code of Chivalry: Thou shalt do battle against unfairness wherever faced with it. Jolene scoffs, calling him a dreamer-he doesn't live in the 'real world' like she does. Soon he starts skipping Rec, creating a castle-like space of his own in the church lot. From the author of the highly acclaimed, New York Times bestselling novel Pax comes a gorgeous and moving middle grade novel that is an ode to introverts, dreamers, and misfits everywhere. Listen to bestselling audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. On his first day Ware meets Jolene, a tough, secretive girl planting a garden in the rubble of an abandoned church next to the camp. Listen to Here in the Real World by Sara Pennypacker with a free trial. But then his parents sign him up for dreaded Rec camp, where he must endure Meaningful Social Interaction and whatever activities so-called 'normal' kids do. Ware can't wait to spend summer 'off in his own world'-dreaming of knights in the Middle Ages and generally being left alone.