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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
I find this to be the perfect middle school book! The plotline of an upcoming doomsday weaves perfectly in with the feeling you have when you're nearing high school and everything is changing. The characters in the book are all delightful, from Mack's predilection for funny accents and keeping positive, to Londyn's athlete-meets-rock-star vibes, to Grandpa Joe's eagerness to connect with his grandkids on an apocalyptic level, to Eleanor, who is just trying to survive in more ways than one. I love the conflict between Eleanor's dad and grandfather - it seems like a very realistic struggle that could happen with a single dad and his own interfering father. It would be a great book for a school curriculum, with its plot points around asteroids, reliable information sources, and survivalism - but it wouldn't be a drag for kids to read. It's light enough for younger middle schoolers, but juicy enough for older ones. I highly recommend it for tween readers or anyone who enjoys a potential-end-of-the-world drama.
This is a sweet book about friendship and the end of the world. Eleanor is a middle school student who becomes convinced that an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, which will mean TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it). Together with her "prepper" grandfather and her best friend Mack, she sets out to ensure that her family and friends are ready to survive. She faces both surprising obstacles (her father does not believe her at all) and surprising support (an enemy at school who turns into an ally, and then a true friend).
Thanks for NetGalley for the advanced copy. I will definitely purchase a copy, or two, for my school library when it is published in September. I know my students will love it!
Thanks for NetGalley for the advanced copy. I will definitely purchase a copy, or two, for my school library when it is published in September. I know my students will love it!
Eleanor's grandfather is a prepper, so of course, she thinks about the end of the world a lot more than other kids. So when she finds a weird website saying that an asteroid will hit earth in April, she latches on to it, creating a club at school around it, convincing her friends that school doesn't matter because the world as we know it is going to end.
She is very convincing, her club goes well, but her father hates this prepper part of her. She gets scared, she scares her brothers. It's all about whether this will happen and focusing on this one event.
This is definitely a relevant topic for 2019, with some ties to information literacy for librarians and teachers. I think this is a perfect book club pick, because discussing why Eleanor is so convinced the world will end when only one weird scientist is telling her is interesting. There is some great middle school psychology in here hidden under a layer of panic about the end of the world.
She is very convincing, her club goes well, but her father hates this prepper part of her. She gets scared, she scares her brothers. It's all about whether this will happen and focusing on this one event.
This is definitely a relevant topic for 2019, with some ties to information literacy for librarians and teachers. I think this is a perfect book club pick, because discussing why Eleanor is so convinced the world will end when only one weird scientist is telling her is interesting. There is some great middle school psychology in here hidden under a layer of panic about the end of the world.
I need to remember when reading middle grade books that I am not the audience for them. Something about this one just didn’t stick for me, but thinking as teenage Ruth, she might have liked it a lot more!
The concept's relatively interesting, and the central theme of being careful what internet sources you trust is a good one for the youths today. The emotional arcs, however, didn't entirely resonate.