Audio Book Description:
The minute the school bus carrying Nate Chance and his little sister, Junie, pulls up in front oh his family`s farmhouse, Nate can tell something`sterribly wrong: Somehow his father has been wounded by a gunshot. Nate sees himstagger across the yard, then watches as the police take him away. Then,nothing. Nobody in the family will say what happened, or whereNate`s dad has gone. At school, his best friend, Larry wont talk to him and kids whisper thathis dad`s a "psycho." Back home, police keep showing up with questions for his mom and then there`s Junie, worried thatMom will sell her beloved pony andcounting on her big brother to figure out a way to reach their dad. But the sciencefair is coming up and Nate has a plan. If he can just winfirst prize with his amazing cloud chamer project he`ll get to go to the state finals, near the hospital where his dads been locked away. And sinceit was his dad who taught him to love science-and the stars-it seems like maybe the magicof the cloud chamber canbring the family together again, too.Too bad he has to work on it with the weirdest, most unpopular girl in school Naomi, with hergoofy hair and nutty idea that the two of them should be bestfriends. The craziest part is, she just might be right.
