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Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass (Ages 10 +)
Ally, short for Alpha, and her younger brother know a lot about constellations. After all, they live at Moon Shadow Campground, in the middle of nowhere, with lots of big sky, telescopes, and infinite stars. Meanwhile, Ally’s counterpart Bree knows fashion and has the latest scoop on all the celebrities. She prefers high-heel sandals and pink tank tops. But all that’s changing. Bree, her younger brother, and their scientist parents are about to pack their possessions into the family’s beat-up van and move to Moon Shadow, just in time for a solar eclipse. The pull of the three distinct voices and their layered stories make this novel perfect for young teens not quite ready for edgier fiction.
“Every Soul a Star” is a humorous and touching novel of friendship. Carefully documented in the author’s end note, there’s plenty here for budding astronomers. This is the kind of book that kids should still be reading in August 2017, the next time a solar eclipse will be on view in the US.
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