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Gr 8 Up—After her mother's alcoholism places her best friend's life in jeopardy, anger and confusion spur 17-year-old Jane to take a summer job away from Minnesota, photographing tornadoes for her brother Ethan's chase team. This is the first time she has left her mother, and she is consumed by guilt and struggling with repressed resentment toward Ethan, who she feels abandoned their family years before. She discovers that her mother's claim to have entered a rehab facility is a lie; things co...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Spending the summer hightailing it across the Midwestern plains chasing tornadoes with a team of meteorological researchers gives seventeen-year-old Jane, the narrator of Zielin's thought-provoking novel, new perspective. For instance, while observing her older brother Ethan, one of the researchers, she notes how "totally at ease" he seems around storms and attributes his calm to one of two reasons -- either "it's because he's studied weathe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Seventeen-year-old Jane gains new perspective on her chaotic home life with her alcoholic mother when she spends the summer chasing tor...Log In or Sign Up to Read More