ljrinaldi 's review for:

What Goes Up by Wen Baragrey

3.0

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Like the author, when I heard about the satellite that was threatening to fall on Robyn's house, I thought of Skylab that was supposed to fall somewhere in Australia in the late 1970s. It is an interesting fear, but when you hear that something like that can fall out of the sky, and in Robyn's case, everything that falls out of the sky lands on her house, it is a valid fear.

But, that is not the only thing that is going on in this story.. Robyn is also thinking, in her fear of being struck by space junk, that she would like to meet her father before she is a goner, so she starts searching for him.

Interesting story. Very real characters. A bit scattered, but real. Mother is eccentric, to say the least, but that adds to the oddness of the house. It did feel as though there was a lot going on for a middle-school book, that there could have been more about how Robyn had wondered about who her father was before she worried about her eminent demise.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.