The Losers at the Center of the Galaxy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316105491)

A tuba player without a tuba and his jellyfish-imitating sister cope with their father's disappearance in a middle-grade novel both hilarious and moving by Mary Winn Heider, the author of The Mortification of Fovea Munson. Now in paperback!

When Lenny Volpe, former quarterback of the worst professional football team in the nation, leaves his family and disappears, the Chicago Horribles win their first game in a long time. Fans are thrilled. The world seems to go back to normal. Except for the Volpe kids.

Winston throws himself into playing the tuba, and Louise starts secret experiments to find a cure for brain injuries, and they're each fine, just fine, coping in their own way. That is, until the investigation of some eccentric teacher behavior and the discovery of a real live bear paraded as the Horribles' new mascot make it clear that things are very much Not Fine. The siblings may just need each other, after all.

Author: Mary Winn Heider
ISBN-10: 031610549X
ISBN-13: 9780316105491
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 05/03/2022
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 7.63h x 5.25w x 0.81d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.3
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 517469 / Losers at the Center of the Galaxy