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Violence
Barely any
Minimal violence; some social aggression and the slow violence of ecological collapse
Language
Barely any
Mild language appropriate for the middle-grade/YA setting
Sexual Content
Barely any
First crush and innocent romantic feelings handled with complete restraint
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
A sustained mood of quiet melancholy and existential dread about a world ending slowly; appropriate for the intended age range
What this book is about
Karen Thompson Walker's debut novel imagines a world where the Earth's rotation gradually slows, lengthening days and nights and disrupting all life. Told through the eyes of Julia, an eleven-year-old in suburban California, the novel blends quiet coming-of-age story with ecological catastrophe. The tone is elegiac and restrained — this is a literary novel about loss and growing up, not a thriller. Relationships, first love, parental tension, and social exclusion are as present as the planetary crisis. Appropriate for thoughtful middle-grade readers and above.
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Themes of loss and ecological collapse
Coming-of-age in a dying world
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