S. R. Johannes

Grace is a teenage girl who was taught survival skills by her father who was a wildlife enforcement officer, but who has been missing for 3 months. Everyone else seem willing to write him off as dead, even though his body was never found, but Grace refuses to give up on finding him alive.

"Dad used to always say, nothing is untraceable. Everything that touches this earth leaves a special imprint, a unique mark that proves we existed in some way - no matter how invisible we may feel."

What seems like a pretty simple premise for this book takes off in many different directions, which can seem a bit dizzying at times. I didn't have a problem with the writing itself, I just wasn't sure what type of book this one wanted to be. I didn't really connect with Grace either because she just didn't seem like a very nice girl, although the stress of searching for a missing parent could certainly explain some of that. There were some pretty distressing descriptions of animal abuse that I wasn't able to read, so I just skimmed over those. Again, I feel like this book switched genres a lot.

All in all, the writing was good, I just personally didn't connect with the story much. I felt like the ending went way off course, so I won't be continuing with this series.

3/5 stars.… (mehr)

This is a great book for students because it includes a female of an underrepresented group as the main character in a steam book, which is important for all students to see. Furthermore, it talks about students working together to come up with an idea of a science experiment. The idea of fair tests and valuable things to explore comes up. Cece is always wondering things but she can not decide what she wants to explore in her science experiment, until one night at dinner she decides she wants to do her experiment on if dogs like vegetables or not. I think this part of the story is really important for students because it shows that they can discover anything around them even if it is silly. They can use every day things to learn more. This might inspire students to want to do all sorts of experiments in their day to day life, which is valuable to elicit, especially in young students.… (mehr)