{"id":9145,"date":"2018-01-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9145"},"modified":"2018-01-17T13:18:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T19:18:57","slug":"away-to-mars-maybe-love-ish-by-karen-rivers-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9145","title":{"rendered":"Away to Mars, maybe – Love, Ish, by Karen Rivers (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookPreparations for Mars mission<\/a> – ongoing.
\nHoping for rain – always.
\nMissing her best friend – must cut that memory off. Entirely.<\/p>\n

Everything was easier before Tig moved away! Now Ish has to cope with a brain tumor and seventh grade without him…<\/p>\n

Find this March 2017 release at your local library<\/a> or favorite independent bookstore<\/a> to see how Ish’s applications to the Mars Now program are received.<\/p>\n

When your best friend moves away, what next?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Love, Ish \/ Karen Rivers. Algonquin Young Readers, 2017. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Certain that she will someday be selected for a Mars mission, 12 year old Ish lists everything that she’ll miss about Earth, like former best friend Tig and the island on their drying-up California lake, and what she won’t miss, like how Tig never calls from Oregon and the cancer that started hurting her brain and how her sister hates her.<\/p>\n

No denying that starting seventh grade is terrible without Tig here, or that Ish was surely adopted with cute older sister Elliott because they were a package deal. <\/p>\n

No good reason that Mars Now has rejected Mischa Love’s application 47 times, or that new friend Gavriel can’t be a girl if he wants to be.<\/p>\n

A brain tumor the size of a brussels sprout – not Ish’s favorite vegetable.
\nRadiation treatments – Ish doesn’t like her red hair, but she doesn’t like it falling out either.
\nDreams of Mars, all the dreams – never let them stop!<\/p>\n

Maybe it will finally rain here in Lake Ochoa again, and maybe Ish can squash that tumor, and maybe she can get to Mars with Tig…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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