The Shape of Thunder [Paperback]

An extraordinary new novel from Jasmine Warga, Newbery
Honor–winning author ofOther Words for Home,about loss and healing—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 forever—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 Thunderis a deeply moving story, told
with exceptional grace, about friendship and loss—and how believing in
impossible things can help us heal.

“[Cora and Quinn] are well developed, and Warga skillfully handles both their delicate, emotional friendship and larger subjects of grief and gun violence. Powerful and emotionally complex.” -Kirkus Reviews

“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

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