The Journey Home (20 page)

ALADDIN

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First Aladdin hardcover edition January 2016

Text copyright © 2016 by Hothouse Fiction

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Jacket designed by Karin Paprocki

Interior designed by Mike Rosamilia

Interior illustrations by Jon Howard

The text of this book was set in Alright Sans.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wallace, Brandon, author.

The journey home / by Brandon Wallace.—Hardcover edition.

pages cm.—(Wilder boys ; [2])

Summary: When Jake, thirteen, and Taylor, eleven, learn that their mother is still alive but facing grave danger if they do not return the money they took from her abusive boyfriend, Bull, they leave their father, who is not eager to help, and set off on their own again for a late autumn trek from Wyoming to Pittsburgh.

[1. Survival—Fiction. 2. Wilderness areas—Fiction. 3. Brothers—Fiction. 4. Runaways—Fiction. 5. Voyages and travels—Fiction. 6. Family problems—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.1.W35Jou 2016

[Fic]—dc23

2015016108

ISBN 978-1-4814-3267-2 (hc)

ISBN 978-1-4814-3268-9 (eBook)