Eventually the two begin to work together on a time-travel project, seeking a wormhole that will allow them to travel back in time and prevent the shooting.

On Cora’s 12th birthday, she finds a box on her front porch: Quinn believes she has discovered a way to fix everything, but she needs Cora’s help. The story unfolds in chapters that alternate between the two girls’ viewpoints Quinn’s chapters open with movingly honest letters to Parker.

While Cora’s family grieves openly and makes sure she sees a therapist regularly, Quinn’s parents fight constantly over who is to blame for what Parker did. Quinn McCauley, who is White, is coping with the emotional fallout of her brother Parker’s life-changing actions. She is mourning the loss of her older sister, Mabel, who died in a school shooting. The Shape of Thunder is a deeply moving story, told with exceptional grace, about friendship and loss-and how believing in impossible things can help us heal.Two best friends haven’t spoken in the year since the tragedy that upended their lives.Ĭora Hamed lives with her Lebanese father and White American maternal grandmother her mother left years earlier. But as they attempt to unravel the mysteries of time travel to save their siblings, they learn that the magic of their friendship may actually be the key to saving themselves. And so the two former friends begin working together to open a wormhole in the fabric of the universe. In spite of herself, Cora wants to believe. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time to the moment before her brother changed all their lives forever-and stop him.

On the day of Cora’s twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did. An extraordinary new novel from the Newbery Honor–winning author of Other Words for Home about grief, loss-and how friendship can be magical.Ĭora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year.ĭespite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief.

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