It was only after his mom called a family meeting that Finn and his sisters, India (age 14) and Mouse (age 6), were clued in.
There were a lot of calls on the answering machine from an entity called “Home Fi.” The only part of his mother’s behavior that didn’t make sense to Finn involved field trip forms that she let pile up. Twelve-year-old Finn had noticed the family no longer ate meat for dinner - just spaghetti and mac and cheese.
It’s less common to read about financially induced home loss in fiction, especially in books for young readers.īut in the new middle-grade novel “No Passengers Beyond This Point” by Gennifer Choldenko (Newbery-winning author of “ Al Capone Does My Shirts”), foreclosure is the catalyst for a fantastical journey taken by three siblings after their single mother loses their home in Thousand Oaks. “Foreclosure” is a word that’s gotten a lot of news coverage in recent years, paralleling, as it does, the economy’s downward spiral. Dial Books for Young Readers: 244 pp., $16.99
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