Parked

For fans of Goodbye Stranger, See You in the Cosmos, The Science of Breakable Things, and Counting by 7s comes a poignant, scrappy, uplifting debut about family, friendship, and accepting help enough to help yourself.Twelve-year-old Jeanne Ann has doubts when her mom spends most of their savings on an old orange van and bundles them off to San Francisco to chase Mom's dream of working as a chef. There, they park on the street while Mom looks for a job she never gets. Before long, Jeanne Ann realizes that this van is the closest thing she has to a home. Across the street, twelve-year-old Cal watches the mobile homeless community parked just beyond his big house. Cal's mom is busy with the upscale restaurant she owns, but they've always been close—until Cal does something his mom just doesn't understand.Then Cal and Jeanne Ann meet. Cal wants to save her. Jeanne Ann doesn't want saving. She just wants her mom to get a good job and...