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Availability:In StockContributor:Sherri L. SmithTheme:Ethnic Orientation/African AmericanAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:9/22/2026Pages:336
Languages:EnglishPublisher:G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9781524737955ISBN-10:152473795XUPC:9781524737955Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Science Fiction, African American & Black, Girls & WomenBook Topic:Time TravelSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.227Product ID:SCEFPZV5A8
A speculative middle grade novel about three generations of Black girls connected across time and space through a wormhole in their school locker. What if your locker was a wormhole through time? On the first day of eighth grade, Candace Wells opens her locker and is astonished when an unusual bird flies out. Soon after, a notebook mysteriously appears on the top shelf, labeled Tracey Auburn, 1988. Stranger still, as Candace reads the notebook, new messages start to appear. Professor Tracey Auburn only vaguely remembers a bird flying into her locker in eighth grade, way back in 1988, and losing a notebook she could have sworn she put on the top shelf. Until Candace shows up at her office with the missing notebook forty years later. Quantum physicist Loretta Spencer will never forget the bird flying out of her locker in eighth grade in 1948. Her life's work has been to study the portal and others like it, and now she needs Tracey's and Candace's help to complete her research. So begins an unlikely friendship and a hunt across Chicago to uncover the secrets of the locker, the universe, and everything. One thing's for sure: Eighth grade will never be the same again.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9781524737955ISBN-10:152473795XUPC:9781524737955Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Science Fiction, African American & Black, Girls & WomenBook Topic:Time TravelSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.227Product ID:SCEFPZV5A8
Sherri L. Smith is the author of numerous acclaimed fiction and nonfiction books for young people, including Pearl: A Graphic Novel, art by Christine Norrie; American Wings: Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky, co-authored with Elizabeth Wein; Flygirl, the winner of the California Book Awards' Gold Medal; The Blossom and the Firefly, the winner of the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators; and Orleans. She teaches creative writing at Hamline University.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
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