num_pages: 256
description:  Jack Lund figures a good day is when his dad's too drunk to beat up his mom.   For Jack, Bogg's End is the end. The end of the turbulent, see-saw years of watching his father go on the wagon and fall right back off again. Once it took two years, but the inevitable inevitably happened. Now it's just Jack and his mom starting over in the strange old house his grandfather left them.  But the ride's not over yet. Jack's father returns, full of apologies and promises, and for a little while, things are looking up. Then in one terrifying, sickening moment, everything comes crashing back down again.  So Jack runs. He runs through a strange hidden door that takes him back in time to before his parents were born. Before he was born. Maybe with a second chance he can stop the inevitable. At least he's got to try. What Jack doesn't understand, though, is that he can't change his future until he faces his past.
language: English
title: Mr. Was
titlecomplete: Mr. Was
characters: Jack Lund
genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Time Travel, Teen, Young Adult, Novels, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 814
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award
publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers