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I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It‘s middle grade, so a fast read, but what an impact! (IYKYK)

If you can get your hands on this book, please do! 5 stars +100 more!

Four days in the life of 11-year-old African American Kemi. Four days until an asteroid destroys the planet Earth. Science-minded Kemi wants to help her family feel less afraid… and ends up helping herself as well. Love it! A middle grade novel, winner of the 2023 Governor General Award for Young People‘s Literature. 🇨🇦 #allages

In my latest video, I talk about: Indigenous literature; middle grade fiction; and chocolate cake
https://youtu.be/NTxAA6HU_NY

Sorry; can‘t see to write a review through these tears. 😭😭😭 So incredibly beautiful and moving and hopeful. And that‘s all I‘m going to say about it. 💜

The stars remind me that we never really lose things or people we love; they are just closer or farther away.

Spending a week with a group of high school, college, & more recent fiends at an isolated house on a lake can‘t be a good idea, can it? Well, ten people are about to learn the answer to that question & what they discover will have you turning pages furiously as one twist after another switches everything up. An excellent story—Tynion writes horror better than just about everyone—with fantastic art & colors. Eisner Award winner indeed. Loved it.

I realized I never posted this for vol. 1 when I read it... hehe my bad ?

The opening, though, hooked me. The tense mystery surrounding the unknown narrator, as she starts with telling the reader, "it was the end of a late night in Brooklyn" leading into a past memory, a brief moment that seems like nothing but is a snippet of a larger picture.

Told across multiple POVs and across days, this volume just grazes the beginning of what's to come.

A massive asteroid strikes the moon moving it closer to Earth. The result is tidal waves, unprecedented volcanic activity, & massive loss of life. That's only in the first few weeks. Cargo & tanker ships are lost so gas for vehicles, oil to run furnaces, & food are all in short supply as humanity descends into lawlessness. Families stockpile what they can & protect it from all others. We follow Miranda, and her family as they try to survive.

🌿 The Probability of Everything by Sarah Everett! It's a middle grade book about a young black girl who learns that an asteroid is coming to hit Earth and destroy everything she's ever known and loved! So she decides to build a time capsule to preserve all the things she loves about her family! I think it's a book everyone should read!

🌿 A teacher I follow on IG was raving about it, so I knew I had to read it!

#two4tuesday @TheSpineView

This book is for the middle school reader and while I noticed that as I read it, I enjoyed it and was surprised by the powerful ending. Told from the POV of an young black girl who loves statistics, we learn that there is an asteroid that will hit the earth in 4 days, thus ending life as we know it. She decides to put together a time capsule with her family so they are remembered. It was a wonderful story of love, family, grief and racism. 4/5 !