Awards

• A Mighty Girl's Books of the Year List
• Cybils Nominee
• Mathical Book Prize
• Truman Readers Award Finalist

Overview

""This book is a gift to the culture."" —Amy Schumer, writer, actor, and activist After her brother's death from a congenital heart defect, twelve-year-old Lucy is not prepared to be the new kid at school—especially in a grade full of survivors of a shooting that happened four years ago. Without the shared past that both unites and divides her classmates, Lucy feels isolated and unable to share her family's own loss, which is profoundly different from the trauma of her peers. Lucy clings to her love of math, which provides the absolute answers she craves. But through budding friendships and an after-school mime class, Lucy discovers that while grief can take many shapes and sadness may feel infinite, love is just as powerful.

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"""Isler nose-dives into the perhaps taboo topic of school shootings, yet breathes healing, change, and math into the emotional -catharsis.""--School Library Journal -- (9/1/2021 12:00:00 AM) ""Like Jewell Parker Rhodes' Ghost Boys, Isler's novel takes the timely and realistic topic of gun violence and turns it into an engaging story without sensationalizing it.""--Booklist -- (9/15/2021 12:00:00 AM) ""Showing a keen understanding of loss, Isler's compassionate debut is written with stark honesty, showcasing various responses to tragedy . . .""--Publishers Weekly -- (8/9/2021 12:00:00 AM)"

Author Information

Emily Barth Isler is an author of essays and children's books, including the middle grade novel AfterMath and the forthcoming picture book Always Enough Love. Emily writes regularly about sustainability, organic/eco-friendly skincare, and healthy beauty products for magazines and blogs. Her next book, The Color of Sound, features a character who, like Emily, has synesthesia. She has a BA in Film Studies from Wesleyan University and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two children.

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