Jackie is still hiding her feelings for Finn, who had been Lorna's boyfriend, and Lucas has withdrawn to the point where Jackie wonders if he is keeping a secret even larger than her own. Lorna had been the dynamic leader of a tight-knit group of four friends - Jackie, Lucas and Finn - and her disappearance changes the dynamics between the surviving three. Set in the Cape Cod village of Provincetown, Massachusetts, this is the story about 17-year-old Jackie's struggle to overcome her grief and confusion after her best friend is carried out to sea during a storm.

Three friends struggle to come to terms with their missing leader and with the secrets each endeavor to hide. Stark, uncompromising, seductive, beautiful - this describes the tourist town of Cape Cod, where a young woman's body remains to be found. Jeannine teaches children’s literature at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst and writing at Simmons College. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters. Jeannine Atkins is the author of several books for young readers about courageous women, including Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science and the highly praised Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C. Told in vibrant, evocative poems, this stunning novel celebrates the joy of discovery and finding wonder in the world around us.

Maria longed to discover a new comet-and after years of studying the night sky, she finally did.

At night they explored the starry sky through his telescope. Intrepid and patient, she eventually discovered fossils that would change people’s vision of the past.Īcross the ocean, Maria Mitchell helped her mapmaker father in the whaling village of Nantucket. To him they were merely a source of income, but to Mary they held a stronger fascination. More than a century later, Mary Anning helped her father collect stone sea creatures from the cliffs in southwest England. Through careful observation she discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented her findings in gorgeous paintings of the life cycles of insects.

Maria Merian was sure that caterpillars were not wicked things born from mud, as most people of her time believed. The Odyssey Bookshop is delighted to welcome back some of our favorite kidlit authors for an exciting writers' panel!Ī gorgeously written novel in verse about three girls in three different time periods who grew up to become groundbreaking scientists. Event: Jeannine Atkins, Ellen Wittlinger, and Jo Knowles

Pearl by Jo Knowles