Thank you to Balzer + Bray for the gifted review copy in exchange for an honest review!Jasmine Warga has a way of making you constantly emotional. After reading Other Words For Home I just knew I was going to want to read this and I'm so glad that I did.I can't explain how amazing this book is. We start off with two points of view, Cora and Quinn. These girls entered my heart immediately. Jasmine Warga has a way of writing her main characters that just leaves you attached days after closing the

This book grabbed me by the heart and squeezed tight. The Shape of Thunder is a Middle Grade story about how two young girls were impacted by a school shooting. Cora lost her older sister to the gunman, who was Quinn’s older brother. Cora and Quinn used to be best friends, but after what happened they haven’t spoken in a year… until Quinn leaves Cora a mysterious box on her birthday. It was extremely moving to see the different ways that Cora and Quinn reacted to what happened and how they start...

CW: Death of loved one, gun violence (off page and not described), racism (reference only - no details given - we just understand it is the motivation behind the attack)Well that was a beautifully written middle-school story of dealing with loss and guilt in the aftermath of a school shooting.Cora and Quinn are both characters that Readers can empathise with. Their fragility and pain pour off the pages and I just wanted to hug them both. Ultimately this is about hope and healing and the differen...

It’s Cora’s 12th birthday and she hasn’t spoken to her best friend Quin in a year despite living next door to each other. Quin has left a box for Cora with a note saying she will fix everything. Cora has lost her sister and Quin has lost her brother. Quin has decided that she will fix things by going back in time and stopping her brother from doing something that changed all their lives forever.In spite of herself, Cora agrees to this because she is desperate to have her sister back. Together Co...

Eureka ! Jasmine Warga has done it again.

When i first read the summary I was interested in the flashback, but as I read i saw how the characters Quinn and cora were, I can't imagine the pain Cora went through and how Quinn felt about everything her brotherhad done. But I really liked Quinn. at the end both cora and Quinn understood they can't go back to the past and change what's happened, but overcome what happened.It was a great story.

Story about two middle schoolers, Cora and Quinn whose lives changed because of a school shooting. (view spoiler)[Quinn's older brother Parker was the one with the gun who shot Cora's older sister Mabel, another student, a teacher and himself prior to the start of this story. (hide spoiler)] After the school shooting, the two girls drift from each other, Can they rekindle their friendship by reuniting to find a wormhole that will allow them to travel back in time to fix the wrongs of the past? G...

WOW! This was one of those books I did not want to put down. Dealing with fraught friendships, gun violence, absent parents and more; this book was outstanding. Warga did an amazing job of handling delicate subjects in a way that worked for this age reader. The book almost forced conversation and was done incredibly well.

4.5 ⭐Huge trigger warning for gun violence. Can Jasmine Warga do wrong? I truly dont believe so. The way that she structures and delivers her stories and characters are so touching and realistic that there's no way that you're not going to feel something for them. I love it so so much that I barely have words to describe it. This book is important not only to younger audiences but also to us grown up adults, so, as the author said, we can FINALLY wake up and start to make changes in this fucked

What a book 😭"I can't decide if it's worse when people totally forget about that part of my identity or when people make assumptions about it. Both of them feel like losing."This book was difficult for me to read as it deals mainly with loss of family members and grief. The story involves two neighbours both which lost a young life because of an unfortunate gun incident and they are grieving for their loss. What follows is how they are struggling to go through a normal day everyday.The story is

Cora and Quinn were once best friends. A tragic event almost a year ago on November 11 caused a fracture between the two families. Although they live next door to each other, they might as well be on opposite sides of the country. The actual event remains shrouded in a cloud of euphemisms and grief. With the anniversary looming, Quinn is determined to turn back the clock. She enlists Cora in a project to find a wormhole and travel back in time and keep the tragedy from occurring. The name of the...

[8 June, 2020] I practically inhaled all of her books last year. I'm ready to sell my soul to get this book right now!

Wow. I honestly don't know what else I can say about this story that hasn't already been said. Powerful, heart-wrenching, hopeful, this story is told from the perspective of two girls who lost siblings in a school shooting. Cora's sister, Mabel, was shot and killed by Quinn's brother, Parker. Both families are reeling with loss, while Cora and Quinn are also dealing with the estrangement of their friendship. When Quinn comes up with an idea to try and create a wormhole to time travel and prevent...

It’s almost a year into the pandemic.Almost a year since I’ve hugged great friends.Almost a year since my students and I have communed together. Then this book comes along. I’ve been anticipating it for a very long time. One of the last times I was together in community with my students was with Jasmine Warga, who had taken time out of her day to visit with my kids as we read Other Words for Home together. And she shared just a bit about The Shape of Thunder, including the title (as long as we p...

Rebecca Stead providing the blurb for the front cover is your first clue that The Shape of Thunder isn't just another middle-grade novel about personal loss. Weaving together themes of science, science fiction, and culture clash, Newbery Honoree Jasmine Warga delivers a story as unsettling as it is quiet, as deeply probing as it is confident in the moral tenets it espouses. It has been less than a year since Cora Hamed's older sister Mabel died, victim of a religious/racial hate crime. Losing he...

The shape of Thunder deals with best friends having to deal with a tragedy of a school shooting that affects both their lives. It deals with two families trying to move on with this murder suicide and at the same time trying to find answers. I enjoyed this middle Grade book.

This is an excellent middle grade story about the aftermath of a school shooting and how two former friends cope with guilt, loss, and grief. I really love the alternating points of view. These two girls have experienced devastating trauma, and while one is receiving therapy and support, the other is not, and throws herself into her own attempt to “set things right.” My heart broke as I learned more of Quinn’s and Cora’s stories and the intense emotional turmoil they struggled through. Despite t...

I just finished THE SHAPE OF THUNDER. I barely have words. It's like the characters Cora and Quinn set up shop in my heart & I'm not ready for them to leave. This is a book you need to hug. A beautiful, wide bowl of love ready to hold anyone struggling under the weight of grief.And yes, I know that these characters will never actually leave my heart, but it's like all I now have are memories of them, and thinking about how we remember people just makes me love this book all over again.

Get ready to cry! There is so much to love about this one - the writing, the characters, the different relationships and dynamics. I loved it all! Every character is unique and so well developed. I love how the characters interacted with each other, and how they grew throughout the novel (some more than others which is so realistic as well). The grief that they are all experiencing is palpable. This is a middle grade novel, and I love how Warga takes some VERY heavy issues and makes them managea...

Thank you so much to Harper Collins for sending me this for review! I haven’t read Other Words for Home yet, but after loving this so much I’m really looking forward to it. I normally stay away from books w/hard subject matters such as this(school shooting), but the synopsis was something entirely different to me, a way I hadn’t see anyone else do it before. The chapters alternate b/n our 2 MC-Cora & Quinn. They used to be best friends until almost a year before when Quinn’s brother Parker kille...