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WaitThe train was moving. Ry could hardly tell at first, but now he knew. It was gaining speed, and he wasn't fast enough to catch it. He had only gotten off for a minute, just to make a phone call—and now it was gone. He was in the middle of nowhere, alone. Maybe it was the middle of nowhere, but to Ry, it felt like the beginning of something. Something that would take him in cars, planes, boats . . . over an ocean and back. Something like an adventure.

Lynne Rae Perkins "finds poetry in the common exchanges between teens" (Booklist). From the Newbery Medal-winning author of Criss Cross comes a tale about a boy whose luck is about to change-and not for the better. Ry is riding a train to summer camp. Too bad he doesn't know that camp has been canceled. And now Ry has been left behind-in the middle of nowhere.