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Connect the Stars by Marisa de los Santos, David Teague
4.0
Middle grade book appropriate for as young as grade 4.
2 character’s POV: Audrey who can tell when people are lying and Aaron who remembers all he hears and sees. Both are sent to a wilderness survival program to hike 200 miles over 6 weeks with only Jare, the intense wilderness guide and some number of other campers. Along the way they make new friends, and discover things about themselves and their world.
Pros: no romance, focus was on friendship, the black and white worldview of childhood changing into a more mature and gray worldview.
Cons: it is a realistic book, with Aaron’s abilities are Believable, though Audrey’s are more sci-fi. Audrey’s character was pretty intense and off putting In the beginning, but teens and preteens can feel intensely and deeply, but not sure why her Unpower of knowing when people are lying wasn’t such a social issue until June of 7th grade. She figures I’ll just have 1 friend, don’t need any others but that puts a lot of pressure the 1 friend who doesn’t know about her powers.
2 character’s POV: Audrey who can tell when people are lying and Aaron who remembers all he hears and sees. Both are sent to a wilderness survival program to hike 200 miles over 6 weeks with only Jare, the intense wilderness guide and some number of other campers. Along the way they make new friends, and discover things about themselves and their world.
Pros: no romance, focus was on friendship, the black and white worldview of childhood changing into a more mature and gray worldview.
Cons: it is a realistic book, with Aaron’s abilities are Believable, though Audrey’s are more sci-fi. Audrey’s character was pretty intense and off putting In the beginning, but teens and preteens can feel intensely and deeply, but not sure why her Unpower of knowing when people are lying wasn’t such a social issue until June of 7th grade. She figures I’ll just have 1 friend, don’t need any others but that puts a lot of pressure the 1 friend who doesn’t know about her powers.