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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. -Robin Williams
I’m a dreamer, lover of words and numbers, and secretly wish I could rescue all of the abandoned cats and kittens of the world... especially the black ones. My characters drive my imagination. They come to me when I least expect them and trust me to nurture and develop their stories. |
Eleven-year-old Danny Wexler, the only Jewish boy in his blue-collar town during the late 1970s, is obsessed with the Bermuda Triangle. When a local child goes missing, Danny's convinced it's connected to an old Bermuda Triangle theory involving UFOs. With his two best friends and their Spacetron telescope, Danny heads to his backyard to investigate. But hunting for extraterrestrials is complicated, and it doesn't help that his friend Nicholas's mom doesn't want her son hanging out with a Jewish boy. Equipped with his super-secret spy notebook, Danny sets out to fight both the aliens and the growing anti-Semitism in the town, in hopes of mending his divided community.
School Library Connection: Highly Recommended
...excellent job of realistically conveying the perspective of a middle schooler ... realistically portrays the
microaggressions Danny and his family encounter as a result of anti-semitism as well as the confusion they cause for a young man who is growing up and facing a world that is not always kind to him.
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