Navigating Early / Clare Vanderpool / 306 pages

Ahhhhh.....wonderful book, notable book, exquisite book.  Set in the years following WWII, a 13 year old boy from Kansas suddenly loses his wonderful mother and is taken to a boarding school in Maine by his Navy sea-faring father.  Jack Baker is lost in many ways.  He makes friends with another lost boy at the school, Early Auden who is autistic and a math genius.  Vanderpool cleverly weaves together the stories of these two boys who are both searching for something very important.  It is a book that will reveal something new each time you read it.  Very special book.  Read it...tell me what you think!