{"id":44062,"date":"2018-12-11T11:12:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T16:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=44062"},"modified":"2018-12-13T14:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:55:51","slug":"science-breakable-things-tae-keller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/science-breakable-things-tae-keller\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Breakable Things by Tae Keller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-44057\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/Science-of-Breakable-Things-Tae-Keller-BookDragon-525x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/Science-of-Breakable-Things-Tae-Keller-BookDragon-525x800.jpg 525w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/Science-of-Breakable-Things-Tae-Keller-BookDragon.jpg 653w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/>In one of those \u201cdorky old composition notebooks,\u201d seventh-grader Natalie is \u201csupposed to observe something that interests us and spend all year applying the scientific process to our capital-Q Question.\u201d While she struggles to formulate that ideal Q, Natalie fills the pages with much more than an assignment, especially involving observations about her brilliant, botanist mother who can\u2019t seem to get out bed, the methods she concocts to spark her to care again, the friends she\u2019ll need to prove her hypotheses, and the surprising results which follow.<\/p>\n<p>That narrator Jennifer Kim avoids pitching her voice toward falsetto-high proves advantageous as she moves effectively from tween to teacher to grandmother with the slightest adjustments. Her deeper voice provides gravitas to Natalie\u2019s depressed mother, her father\u2019s false cheer, while her agile intonations enhance the rhythms of youthful tweenage dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Kim\u2019s shared Korean heritage with debut novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taekeller.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tae Keller<\/a> (who, like Natalie, is \u00bc Korean, and happens to be the daughter of award-winning writer <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/fox-girl-by-nora-okja-keller-author-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nora Okja Keller<\/a>) gives her shared linguistic fluency as well. Whether on the page or stuck in the ear, these Things prove positively satisfying.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of those \u201cdorky old composition notebooks,\u201d seventh-grader Natalie is \u201csupposed to observe something that interests us and spend all year applying the scientific process to our capital-Q Question.\u201d While she struggles to formulate that ideal Q, Natalie fills the pages with much more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,6,197,38,30],"tags":[6608,59,10,11,135,7936,7292,129,39,7934,7935],"class_list":["post-44062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-fiction","category-hapa","category-korean-american","category-middle-grade-readers","tag-bookdragon","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-grandparents","tag-jennifer-kim","tag-mental-illness","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-science-of-breakable-things","tag-tae-keller"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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