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Ona Gritz Author Of Everywhere I Look

From Ona's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Ona's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Ona Gritz Why Ona loves this book

I love middle grade novels and this one is moving and incredibly unique. Eleven year old Kemi is dealing with a grief so huge, she creates another world--one that's ending--and makes it so credible and vivid, we live that pending loss with her. I was drawn in and mystified and I can't stop marveling at Sarah Everett's brilliant handling of heartbreak and grief through her narrator's wild imagination and the resilience Kemi doesn't even know she has.

By Sarah Everett ,

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2 authors picked The Probability Of Everything as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 8, 9, 10, and 11.

What is this book about?

A heart-wrenching middle grade debut about Kemi, an aspiring scientist who loves statistics and facts, as she navigates grief and loss at a moment when life as she knows it changes forever.

Eleven-year-old Kemi Carter loves scientific facts, specifically probability. It's how she understands the world and her place in it. Kemi knows her odds of being born were 1 in 5.5 trillion, and that the odds of her having the best family ever were even lower. Yet somehow, Kemi lucked out.

But everything Kemi thought she knew changes when she sees an asteroid hover in the sky, casting a…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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Ona Gritz Author Of Everywhere I Look

From Ona's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

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Ona's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Ona Gritz Why Ona loves this book

I opened this book while browsing at my local library, read one sentence and was hooked. It's always voice that pulls me into memoir and Crosley's is authentic and compelling. Also, she's so smart and thoughtful. If it wasn't a library book, my copy would be filled with underlines and asterisks for all the times she nailed an emotion, floored me with an insight, or led me to think about something in a new way.

By Sloane Crosley ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Grief Is for People as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, one of Vogue, Esquire, W, and Real Simple's Best Books of the Year So Far, and one of The Most Anticipated Books of the Year: TIME, The Washington Post, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Publishers Weekly, Paste, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Lit Hub, Real Simple, Nylon, BookPage, Book Riot, The Story Exchange, Sunset and Zibby Mag

Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend.

How do we live without the ones we love? Grief Is for People…


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