<Tr> <Th> LC Class </Th> <Td> PZ7. S3527 Or 2015 </Td> </Tr> <P> Orbiting Jupiter is a 2015 young adult fiction novel written by Gary D. Schmidt, the author of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy and Okay for Now . The novel is set in rural Eastham, Maine during the fall and winter of an unnamed modern - day school year . </P> <P> Jackson (Jack) Hurd narrates his experience while his family is fostering Joseph Brook, a fourteen - year - old boy who served a month's sentence in the fictional Stone Mountain juvenile detention center . Joseph is a teenage father who signed his parental rights away to allow his daughter Jupiter to be placed for adoption . Shortly after signing away his rights, he took unmarked yellow pills and assaulted a teacher, for which he was sent to Stone Mountain . The novel begins with Mrs. Stroud, the social worker assigned to Joseph's case, telling the Hurd family specific rules for dealing with Joseph . </P> <P> The farm owned by the Hurds is based on a real organic farm in East Sumner, Maine that welcomes foster children and encourages them to develop self - responsible habits . Schmidt based the character of Joseph on a boy he met while visiting a juvenile detention facility . He described the writing process as starting by listening for a narrator, which he found in Jack: "Sometimes it takes longest of all, but it's everything . So I found this naïve 12 - year - old who would grow throughout the book and has questions he's beginning to ask for the first time . That voice, once it was there...then the book wasn't too hard to write ." </P>

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