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The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga

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xosarahirene's review against another edition

5.0

Important, beautiful, necessary, powerful. I have no other and a billion other words. Every educator should read this book.

elizabethwillett's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

brittneyfike's review against another edition

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4.0

THIS WAS BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN. IT
DEALS WITH LOSS AND AND GUILT AND SO
MUCH MORE. I REALLY LIKED BOTH CORA
& QUINN. THEY BOTH GREW SO MUCH
THROUGHOUT THE STORY.

breakfastgrey's review against another edition

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2.0

While the second half of this book is considerably better than the first half, I still found the whole thing lacking. It just felt so, so contrived and cliched. It wants so desperately to be a big, important story that no part of it feels real, especially the characters. They feel like characters based off book characters, not actual children. In the end, the whole thing feels like it was written with the checklist of important middle grade topics at hand and a determination to check everything it could off the list. Also, there is no time travel in this book about time travel… unless the real time travel is the memories we make along the way?!