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REPAIRING THE WORLD
The Thing About Jellyfish meets Elana K. Arnold's The Question of Miracles in Linda Epstein's debut Middle Grade novel, Repairing the World.
Best friends Daisy and Ruby sneak into the woods of Steward Preserve near Daisy's house one afternoon after a storm upends a large oak tree. They see... well, they're not exactly sure what they see. It isn't a hummingbird, and it isn't a dragonfly. It's kind of sparkly, and it seems magical, and it's altogether unlikely. They decide it must be a fairy.
But one week later Ruby dies in a horrible car crash while Daisy is camping with her parents, and it feels to Daisy like any magic that might have been in the world is gone forever. After a miserable summer of sadness Daisy starts middle school alone. Ruby doesn't have a locker next to Daisy's, Ruby and Daisy never got to plan their first day of school outfits, nothing is as it should be because Ruby isn't there.
When Daisy meets a new boy at Hebrew School named Mo, he says their friendship is bashert - destined. But Daisy doesn't agree. And Avery, the girl who lives on the other side of the Preserve feels like entirely too much. Nobody is really like Ruby, and anyway, Daisy decides she can't possibly make new friends while she's still grieving. Except she does, and maybe that hurts most of all, and it causes Daisy to lash out and then lose her only chance at possibly making new friends in the aftermth of so much pain.
With a teeny tiny sprinkle of fairy dust, Repairing the World is a (mostly) realistic contemporary story that suggests that there is always room for second chances, and that patience, trust, and love create a kind of magic all their own, as Daisy sets out to try and repair her broken world, one friendship at a time.
Linda Epstein is a senior literary agent at Emerald City Literary, representing picture books, middle grade, and young adult novels. In 2018 she received her MFA from The New School in writing for children and young adults. She lives on the north shore of Long Island, New York, where her story is set. Repairing the World is her debut novel.
But one week later Ruby dies in a horrible car crash while Daisy is camping with her parents, and it feels to Daisy like any magic that might have been in the world is gone forever. After a miserable summer of sadness Daisy starts middle school alone. Ruby doesn't have a locker next to Daisy's, Ruby and Daisy never got to plan their first day of school outfits, nothing is as it should be because Ruby isn't there.
When Daisy meets a new boy at Hebrew School named Mo, he says their friendship is bashert - destined. But Daisy doesn't agree. And Avery, the girl who lives on the other side of the Preserve feels like entirely too much. Nobody is really like Ruby, and anyway, Daisy decides she can't possibly make new friends while she's still grieving. Except she does, and maybe that hurts most of all, and it causes Daisy to lash out and then lose her only chance at possibly making new friends in the aftermth of so much pain.
With a teeny tiny sprinkle of fairy dust, Repairing the World is a (mostly) realistic contemporary story that suggests that there is always room for second chances, and that patience, trust, and love create a kind of magic all their own, as Daisy sets out to try and repair her broken world, one friendship at a time.
Linda Epstein is a senior literary agent at Emerald City Literary, representing picture books, middle grade, and young adult novels. In 2018 she received her MFA from The New School in writing for children and young adults. She lives on the north shore of Long Island, New York, where her story is set. Repairing the World is her debut novel.
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Published 2022-07-05 by Simon & Schuster / Aladdin |