Summary Of Gary D. Schmidt's 'Orbiting Jupiter'

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Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt is told through the point of view of Jack, who tells the story of Joseph, the foster child who comes into Jack’s family. Joseph is a troubled kid who came to Jack’s family from an institution after an incident of attacking a teacher. We also learn that Joseph has a daughter name Jupiter and there are many things from Joseph’s past that haunts him, which forms his troubled child character. The story written by Gary D. Schmidt wasnt relative to author's life personally but learned of kids in situations of having their own children when speaking with a friend who was a doctor and knew of this happening. Schmidt found this baffling and played into this when writing Orbiting Jupiter. Giving a theme to this story

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