The Shape of Thunder

by Jasmine Warga

Hardcover, 2021

Status

Available

Call number

FIC Warga

Description

Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. HTML: An extraordinary new novel from Jasmine Warga, Newbery Honorā??winning author of Other Words for Home, about loss and healingā??and how friendship can be magical. Cora hasn't spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year. Despite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did. On the day of Cora's twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time to the moment before her brother changed all their lives foreverā??and stop him. In spite of herself, Cora wants to believe. And so the two former friends begin working together to open a wormhole in the fabric of the universe. But as they attempt to unravel the mysteries of time travel to save their siblings, they learn that the magic of their friendship may actually be the key to saving themselves. The Shape of Thunder is a deeply moving story, told with exceptional grace, about friendship and lossā??and how believing in impossible things can help u… (more)

Publication

Balzer Bray (2021), 288 pages

Awards

Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Nominee — 2023)
Georgia Children's Book Award (Finalist — Grades 6-8 — 2023)
Great Stone Face Book Award (Nominee — 2023)
Iowa Teen Award (Nominee — 2024)
Ohioana Book Award (Finalist — Middle Grade & Young Adult Literature — 2022)
NCSLMA Battle of the Books (Middle School — 2023)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — Grades 6-9 — 2023)
Volunteer State Book Award (Nominee — Middle School — 2023)
Three Stars Book Award (Nominee — Middle School — 2022)
Heartland Booksellers Award (Finalist — 2022)
Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl (Middle School — 2023)
Read Aloud Indiana Book Award (Middle Grades — 2023)
Illinois Reads (6-8 — 2022)
Project LIT Book Selection (Young Adult — 2023)

Language

Physical description

288 p.; 8.4 inches

ISBN

0062956671 / 9780062956675

Barcode

4865
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