{"id":11150,"date":"2020-04-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11150"},"modified":"2020-04-21T09:12:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:12:21","slug":"r-is-for-red-and-all-the-impossible-things-by-lindsay-lackey-middle-grade-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11150","title":{"rendered":"R is for Red and ALL THE IMPOSSIBLE THINGS, by Lindsay Lackey (middle grade book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Her life is a storm,
mom blown off course,
counting days till she’s home\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red swirls through the foster care system<\/a> after drugs send Mom to prison and Gamma can’t take care of the middle-schooler anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So hard to control the wind whispering under her skin when she gets upset, the storm clouds that gather above when she is angry!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe it’ll be okay at the Grooves’ place in the Colorado countryside with their petting zoo and giant tortoise and goats who can climb trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her new neighbor Marvin’s online ‘Kitchen Kahuna’ show features his Hawaia’an heritage, but their small-town classmates aren’t adventurous eaters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can Red dare to hope this might be a safe place?
How many more letters before Mom writes back?
What if the magical wind inside them both roars out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red keeps researching bumblebees and other “impossible things” on the list that she began with her grandmother, trying to find out how to make “live with Mom forever” come true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet Red in the first two chapters of this debut novel of magical realism<\/a>, free from the publisher here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you work past things that seem impossible on the surface?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: All the Impossible Things \/ Lindsay Lackey. Roaring Brook Press, 2019. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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