Small as an Elephant
by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
275 pages

Jack is alone.  The night before, he and his mother pitched their tents in a National Park on the first night of their long-awaited vacation.  When he wakes up in the morning, she is gone.  So he begins a painful journey on his own, confronting hunger, extremes of weather, distance, and always the feelings of abandonment and anger towards his mother. A fast-paced adventure story which confronts the genuine issue of bipolar disorder and its effects on family members.

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Grade 6