I was not disappointed with Linda Urban's newest novel, The Center of Everything. While I didn't love, love, love it to the same degree as I loved A Crooked Kind of Perfect (a book I read twice in one week because it was just that good), I still found myself loving The Center of Everything.
Ruby Pepperdine is the heroine of The Center of Everything. We meet her on a big day, the day she's part of the town's parade. She'll be reading her winning essay to the waiting crowd. Winning is something that she definitely didn't expect. Then again, a lot of unexpected things have been happening: her grandmother dying, a growing distance between herself and her best friend, her newly developed friendship with a boy, and that's not to mention the wish...
Readers get flashes from the past bringing the story to life. We learn chapter by chapter what is going right and what is going wrong in this young girl's life.
The Center of Everything is a great coming of age story; it captures some of the emotions of being eleven-going-on-twelve.
Read the Center of Everything
- If you are a fan of Linda Urban
- If you enjoy middle grade fiction with a focus on friendship and family
- If you enjoy coming of age stories
- If you are looking for a MG title about grief
- If you are looking for a 'summer' book
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