Alameda Free Library First Chapter Friday: And Then, Boom!

How do you cope with the unexpected moments that change everything in your world? Until what he calls “the Mess with Mom,” sixth grader Joseph Oak and his widowed English grandmother were doing okay. Between the house Grandmum owned, the money she made cleaning houses and offices, their food stamp benefits, and Joe’s free school meals, they were getting by. But about a year ago, when Joe’s mostly absent mother got arrested, Grandmum put the house up for bail money. (Joe knows nothing about his dad.) Then Mom fled, and “BOOM!”-they were living in their car: “I felt like we were goldfish in a fishbowl.” - Kirkus Reviews
And Then, Boom! by Lisa Fipps. Published by Penguin Random House