Impossible Things
by Robin Stevenson
- Short-listed, Chocolate Lily nominee
- Commended, CCBC Best Books
- Short-listed, SYRCA Diamond Willow nominee
- Commended, Resource Links "The Year's Best"
"Cassidy Silver is not having a good year. Her engineer father is in the Middle East, her artist mother is too busy to listen to the painful details of her daughter's grade seven life, her genius younger brother is being bullied, and her best friend Chiaki has abandoned her to hang out with the meanest girls in school. Then Cassidy meets Victoria, who is telekinetic -- she can move objects with her mind. Cassidy, desperate to not be the only ordinary person in her family, thinks learning telekinesis could be the answer to all her problems. But is Victoria telling the truth? And is telekinesis really the solution?"
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"[It] will appeal to adolescent girls, especially for those on the margins and who need more space. Recommended."
"Realistic fiction with a twist."
"Compelling."
"A perfect selection to lift the spirits of the observers, the outcasts, and the creative individualists who find the road of adolescence a painful one."
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"This book had me hooked."
