Content: G
BUYING ADVISORY: EL - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
11yo Gentry has been living with her prepper parents, I mean with Alex and Jennifer, on property near her maternal grandmother in rural Utah. Secretly Gentry has been building her own ultralight aircraft - using money she stole from secret caches buried by Alex. Gentry desperately wants to fly - but she has promised Nanny Pat that she won’t until she is 12. Hayes has been living with his Grandma Louise and his younger brother, but his mom is out of prison now and Hayes is able to forgive her. The unlikely duo are drawn together - the overbold Gentry and the withdrawn, anxious Hayes. Also drawn near them - a fire happening near Bryce Canyon - in the way of Gentry getting to see Pando, an aspen organism that is considered to be the largest organism on earth.
The addition of the kids’ lives being in danger feels like overkill when you consider the other problems they are dealing with feel huge enough to carry the book. The title and cover art will catch eyes for sure, but I like Two Degrees by Alan Gratz more.
Cindy Mitchell, Library Teacher, MLS
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