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A review by thisgrrlreads
The World Ends in April by Stacy McAnulty
3.0
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.