num_pages: 231
description: My fingers search the cardboard container, but I’ve finished the fries. I squirt ketchup on my fingers and lick it off. I’m never full. I think it was one of the reasons I had to leave, or, rather, my mother kicked me out. Jenna’s a runaway, but I’m a throwaway. Tossed out. Like garbage.Keep your wits about you. Check your back.Do what it takes to survive on the streets.Dylan is living on the streets not through any choice of his own, unlike some of the teenagers he meets in the same situation. He’s been cut loose by his unstable mother, and lost most contact with his two younger brothers. He has nothing but his backpack stuffed with a few precious belongings and the homeless kids he meets. At least he has his theories. No one can take those away from him. Like how every fourth person throws him spare change; how no one does anything for anyone without a price; and how he just might be able to find a place in this complicated world.Disturbing, gritty, painful, hopeful—this is a story of a sixteen-year-old determined to survive against all odds.
language: English
title: Theories of Relativity
titlecomplete: Theories of Relativity
genres: Read For School, Realistic Fiction, Canada, School, Young Adult, Teen, Family, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 973
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Snow Willow Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Stellar Book Award
publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)