Powerful and emotionally complex." - Kirkus Reviews
" are well developed, and Warga skillfully handles both their delicate, emotional friendship and larger subjects of grief and gun violence. "The story builds steadily toward a moving conclusion Warga's lyrical language and credible rendering of both middle school life and of the tensions of two families coping differently with personal devastation make for a perceptive, sensitively told novel about the effects of gun violence." - Publishers Weekly "With taut pacing, nuanced characters, and compassionate depictions of grief and trauma, Warga's novel is both timely and transcendent a must-purchase for all collections." - School Library Journal The Shape of Thunder is a deeply moving story, told with exceptional grace, about friendship and loss-and how believing in impossible things can help us heal. 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. And so the two former friends begin working together to open a wormhole in the fabric of the universe.
In spite of herself, Cora wants to believe. 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 forever-and stop him. On the day of Cora's twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. 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. An extraordinary new novel from Jasmine Warga, Newbery Honor-winning author of Other Words for Home, about loss and healing-and how friendship can be magical.Ĭora hasn't spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year.ĭespite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief.
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