Midnight at the Electric
YA book review: Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson
A teen science prodigy, Adri, is in the final months of preparing to launch from earth to help colonize Mars when she discovers she still has one living relative on earth. Adri leaves her home in flooded Miami to reunite with her 100 plus year old relative on a rural farmstead an hour outside of the now booming metropolis of Wichita, Kansas.
There, Adri struggles to find any connection. She finds a journal of a young woman who'd lived there before, and she sinks deep into the tales of Lenore, a British woman recovering from World War I in 1919, as well as Catherine, an Okie from the dust bowl in 1934. Bridging these tales is Galapagos, a nearly 150 year old turtle that Adra meets when she arrives at the Kansas farmstead. This multigenerational story helps Adri see not only her own past, but how her strength can potentially serve the future of humanity.
A teen science prodigy, Adri, is in the final months of preparing to launch from earth to help colonize Mars when she discovers she still has one living relative on earth. Adri leaves her home in flooded Miami to reunite with her 100 plus year old relative on a rural farmstead an hour outside of the now booming metropolis of Wichita, Kansas.
There, Adri struggles to find any connection. She finds a journal of a young woman who'd lived there before, and she sinks deep into the tales of Lenore, a British woman recovering from World War I in 1919, as well as Catherine, an Okie from the dust bowl in 1934. Bridging these tales is Galapagos, a nearly 150 year old turtle that Adra meets when she arrives at the Kansas farmstead. This multigenerational story helps Adri see not only her own past, but how her strength can potentially serve the future of humanity.
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