The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty is a wonderful novel that I didnt want to end. Evelyn Bucknow is a young girl growing up in Kansas, without many opportunities, but with a lot of courage, wit and honesty.
She is caught between her very religious grandmother, who she loves dearly, and her science teacher, who she greatly admitres. She navigates her own way through adolescence, as her young mother is at home with her developmentally delayed baby brother and her father is long gone.
Moriarty is a great writer, she paints a very believable picture of this small community and I cared deeply for Evelyn, wanting to know what would happen to her even after the book ended. A great read.
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