CONTENTS
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
I. PREPARATIONS
1. The Sea
2. Three Sides
3. Slow Time
4. The Big Baby
II. SHAKEDOWN
5. Afloat
6. Slugs and Bananas
7. Wildlife
8. The Dolt and the Orphan
9. Beheading
10. Ahoy
11. Juggling
12. Blah-blah-blah
13. Shakedown
14. Bompie and the Car
III. THE ISLAND
15. Grand Manan
16. Stranded
17. Tradition
18. Bompie and the Train
19. Wood Island
20. The Little Kid
21. The Baptism
22. Bompie and the Pastor
IV. UNDER WAY
23. Whoosh!
24. Oranges and Pizza
25. Fired
26. Code
27. Insurance
28. Charlie-Oscar-Delta-Yankee
29. Blips
30. Knots
31. Rosalie
32. Bompie and the Swimming Hole
33. Life
34. Little Kid Nightmares
35. The Blue Bopper
V. WIND AND WAVES
36. Bouncing
37. Wind
38. Howling
39. Bobbing
40. No Time
41. Surfing
42. Battling
43. Weary
44. The Son
45. Alone
46. Bompie at the Ocean
47. Force Ten
48. Night
49. Spinning
50. The Wave
51. Limping
52. Jumbled
53. Bompie and His Father
54. Mr. Fix-it
55. Wet
56. Useful
57. Thinking
58. Little Kid: Push and Pull
59. New Dreams
60. Questions
VI. LAND
61. Ahoy Ahoy
62. Land
63. Bursting
64. New Body
65. Push-Pull
66. The Visitor
67. Phone Calls
68. Wales
69. The Little Girl
70. The Castle
71. The Cottage
72. Bompie
73. The Story
74. Apples
75. Oh, Rosalie!
76. Gifts
77. Remembering
78. Home
READER’S GUIDE
Questions for Discussion
Questions for Sharon Creech
About the Author
Other Works
Credits
Copyright
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