March 27, 2012

Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass


Every Soul a Star is geared toward children however everyone can enjoy the storyline and the astronomy knowledge the author brings to readers.  I highly appreciate learning a new topic or finding out more information on a subject I am interested in when reading fiction.  In alternating chapters (something else I love), we follow three thirteen year olds as they are brought together at the Moon Shadow Campground to observe a total solar eclipse.  Ally lives at Moon Shadow and loves her home-schooled, secluded life; it’s all she’s ever known.  Bree, on the other hand, believes she must have been “switched at birth”.  With her love for the mall and all things glamorous she doesn’t seem to fit in with her physicist parents.  Then we meet Jack, who chooses to assist his science teacher on an eclipse tour headed for the campground, rather than attending summer school for a failed class.  The teens' lives change remarkably as they interact with one another and learn more about themselves during the time period leading up to the eclipse and after. 

Mark your calendars for the next total solar eclipse visible from the mainland U.S.: August 21, 2017! 

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