Learning to swear in America
(Book)

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books,,July 01, 2016

Publishers Weekly,,May 02, 2016

VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates Magazine),,August 01, 2016

Booklist,,June 01, 2016

An asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. A big, bad one. Maybe not kill-all-the-dinosaurs bad, but at least kill-everyone-in-California-and-wipe-out-Japan-with-a-tsunami bad. Yuri, a physicist prodigy from Russia, has been recruited to aid NASA as they calculate a plan to avoid disaster. The good news is Yuri knows how to stop the asteroid--his research in antimatter will probably win him a Nobel prize if there's ever another Nobel prize awarded. But the trouble is, even though NASA asked for his help, no one there will listen to him. He's seventeen, and they've been studying physics longer than he's been alive. Then he meets (pretty, wild, unpredictable) Dovie, who lives like a normal teenager, oblivious to the impending doom. Being with her, on the adventures she plans when he's not at NASA, Yuri catches a glimpse of what it means to save the world and live a life worth saving.

12-19.,Brodart

7-12.,Brodart

HL700L,Lexile

Accelerated Reader AR,UG,4.9,12,193219.