A tuba player without a tuba and his jellyfish-imitating sister cope
with their father's disappearance in a middle-grade novel both hilarious
and moving by Mary Winn Heider, the author of The Mortification of
Fovea Munson. Now in paperback!
When Lenny Volpe, former quarterback of the worst professional football
team in the nation, leaves his family and disappears, the Chicago
Horribles win their first game in a long time. Fans are thrilled. The
world seems to go back to normal. Except for the Volpe kids.
Winston throws himself into playing the tuba, and Louise starts secret
experiments to find a cure for brain injuries, and they're each fine,
just fine, coping in their own way. That is, until the investigation of
some eccentric teacher behavior and the discovery of a real live bear
paraded as the Horribles' new mascot make it clear that things are very
much Not Fine. The siblings may just need each other, after all.