description: Ten-year-old Reeve McClain, Jr.-Junebug-shuns the gangs and drug dealers who inhabit the projects where he lives, and dreams instead of being a ship's captain and sailing away. Then Junebug's mother gets a job offer that would mean a move-but the decision is not as easy as it seems.
language: English
title: Junebug
titlecomplete: Junebug
genres: Fiction, Family, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Chapter Books, Childrens, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, African American
ratings_count: 329
places: Connecticut, New Haven, Connecticut
series: Junebug
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)