I love how Nova likes to play with toys, and make up stories, and I love how she loves outer space. I love the foster parents who care so much about her. She knows how Nova feels, and she understands how hard it is, when the world is too noisy, and you don't want to be touched. The author has aspbergers, a form of autism, so knows how it feels. Nova has autism, and in the 1980s, it was less understood, and because she is non-verbal they think that she doesn't understand, that she is mentally challenge (or as they would say retarded). This book made me cry, which is actually a good thing. Nova and Bridget are in foster care, and keep getting moved around, but they always have each other, and Bridget has promised to watch the Challenger launch with Nova.
One is a third person version, and then there are the letters she writers to her sister, telling her what is going on in her life. You know it will be horrible when it happens.Īnd it would be great if we could protect Nova from this horrible event, but you can't. So, going into this book, with Nova getting all excited about the Challenger launch, you know there is going to be disappointment.
Kennedy was assassinated, or when Pearl Harbor was bombed. It is one of those things that you don't forget, just as earlier generations remember when John F. And it would be great if we could protect Nova from this horrible e I remember when the Challenger exploded. You know it will be horrible when it happens. Because Bridget said, "No matter what, I'll be there. But every day, she's counting down to the launch, and to the moment when she'll see Bridget again. As the liftoff draws closer, Nova's new foster family and teachers begin to see her potential, and for the first time, she is making friends without Bridget. While foster families and teachers dismiss Nova as severely autistic and nonverbal, Bridget understands how intelligent and special Nova is, and all that she can't express. But Bridget has disappeared, and Nova is in a new foster home. They planned to watch the launch together. Nova and her big sister, Bridget, share a love of astronomy and the space program.
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But Bridget has disappeared, and Nov Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Challenger-it's the first time a teacher is going into space, and kids across America will watch the event on live TV in their classrooms. Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Challenger-it's the first time a teacher is going into space, and kids across America will watch the event on live TV in their classrooms.
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