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The Missing Pieces of Me by Jean Van Leeuwen
The Missing Pieces of Me by Jean van Leeuwen. Weezie has a lot of responsibilities for a 10-year-old girl: taking care of her little brother and sister while her mom works and cleaning up and cooking for the family in their trailer home. It's not easy. She finds comfort in a new friend, a stray cat, and drawing. Weezie loves drawing! There is something big that bothers her though: she doesn't know her Dad. Weezie decides to find him. This is a good book for 4th and 5th graders.
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The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker (June 26) We’ve been gushing quite a bit about this book lately, but we promise, it’s for good reason. Walker’s luminous debut imagines the apocalypse through the eyes of an 11-year-old girl, which would be fascinating enough, except that the apocalypse is the gradual slowing of the earth’s rotation, a slippery slope of time that both changes everything and changes nothing — at least if you’re an adolescent.