Outside Nowhere

By Adam Borba

A boy's summer job on a mysterious farm reveals magical secrets and unexpected challenges.

4.2/5 Goodreads · 188 ratings

272 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Parker Kelbrook's summer takes a wild turn when his prank backfires, landing him on a peculiar farm far from home. Tasked with hard work alongside unfriendly peers, Parker soon discovers strange happenings, like a cow on the barn roof. As he navigates this magical mystery, Parker learns that both mistakes and miracles can have serious consequences. Will he uncover the farm's secrets before it's too late?

From the publisher

From the author of The Midnight Brigade, this heartwarming and humorous middle grade novel follows one boy’s summer adventure at a peculiar farm in the middle of nowhere. Charming and funny, Parker Kelbrook can wriggle out of anything he doesn’t want to do. So when he’s forced to take a job at the local pool–a threat to his beach-filled summer plans–he comes up with the perfect prank to get himself fired. Once Parker’s father catches wind of his latest scheme, he decides enough is enough, and Parker is sent halfway across the country to work on a farm alongside five other kids who aren’t his biggest fans. As Parker learns to roll up his sleeves and keep his head down, strange things start happening. And after he awakens one morning to find a seventeen-hundred-pound dairy cow on the roof of a barn, he suspects that something magical and mysterious is growing in the farm’s fields. Adam Borba presents a whimsical new story about a boy’s discovery that mistakes and miracles can have serious consequences.

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