by Lisa Fipps. Joe Oak is used to living on unsteady ground. His mom can’t be depended on as she never stays around long once she gets “the itch,” and now he and his beloved grandmother find themselves without a home. Fortunately, Joe has an outlet in his journals and drawings and takes comfort from the lessons of comic books--superheroes have a lot of “and then, boom” moments, where everything threatens to go bust but somehow they land on their feet. And that seems to happen a lot to Joe too, as in this crisis his friend Nick helps them find a home in his trailer park. But things fall apart again when Joe is suddenly left to fend for himself. He’s never felt so alone--until an emaciated little dog and her two tiny pups cross his path. And fate has even more in store for Joe because an actual tornado is about to hit home--and just when it seems all is lost, his life turns in a direction that he never could have predicted.