Natalie's uplifting story of using the scientific process to "save" her mother from depression is what Booklist calls "a winning story full of heart and action.
TAE KELLER was born and raised in Honolulu, where she grew up on purple rice, Spam musubi, and her halmoni's tiger stories. She is theNewbery Medal-winning authorofWhen You Trap a TigerandThe Science of Breakable Things.She lives in Seattle.Visit her at TaeKeller.com, follow her monthly love letters at bit.ly/lovetae, and find her on Twitter and Instagram.
An NPR Great Read of the Year
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A Booklist Reader Best Book of the Month
A Brightly Best Children's and YA Books of March 2018
“Natalie is an engaging narrator whose struggles at home and with
her peers ring true.” —Deborah Hopkinson, award-winning author
“Inspiring, emotional, and heartwarming.” —Melissa Savage, author
of Lemons
“A compassionate glimpse of mental illness accessible to a broad
audience.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred
"Beautifully crafted metaphors, a theme of mending old friendships
and creating new ones, and an empowering teacher to a variety of
readers. . . . A winning story full of heart and action.”
—Booklist, starred
“Natalie’s Korean heritage is sensitively explored, as is the
central issue of depression.” —Publishers Weekly
“Natalie learns that, as with the egg, people, too, are fragile and
need support and padding to break their falls. An emotional story
that explores parental depression with realism and empathy.”
—School Library Journal
"A sweet and hope-filled story.” —Brightly
"Holy moly!!! This book made me feel." —Colby Sharp, editor
of The Creativity Project
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