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Reviewed on August 21, 2020 | YA
Gr 9 Up—The white Hofstadt family lives outside of Pittsburgh in rural Pennsylvania. Nothing is particularly interesting about them: Ishmael is a charming high school senior, Gideon is a science-minded junior, 13-year-old Maggie loves softball, and mom and dad are attentive and loving. But when Gideon and Ishmael set off an explosion—in the name of science—large enough to register on university seismographs, the chain of events that follows places the Hofstadts, especially Gideon, in the center of an ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More