A brother\'s disappearance turns one family upside down, revealing painful secrets that threaten the life they\'ve always known.
An NCTE Notable Verse Novel A Mighty Girl Best Book of the Year A Bank Street Best Children\'s Book of the Year Cybils Award Poetry Winner!.
With a gorgeous narrative voice, Everywhere Blue is perfect for fans of Eventown and OCDaniel .
This powerful debut novel in verse addresses the climate crisis, intergenerational discourse, and mental illness in an accessible, hopeful way.
And maybe finding Strum won\'t solve everything--but she knows he\'s out there, and she has to try.
Maybe her nervous thoughts and compulsive counting mean she needs help.
Maybe her parents aren\'t who she thought they were.
Scared and on her own, Maddie picks up the pieces of her family\'s fractured lives. . .
So, Maddie starts looking for clues: Was Strum unhappy? Were the arguments with their dad getting worse? Or could his disappearance have something to do with those endangered butterflies he loved .
He used to confide in her, sharing his fears about the climate crisis and their planet\'s future.
Though Maddie is the youngest, she knows Strum better than anyone.
Drowning in grief and confusion, the family\'s musical household falls silent.
Meanwhile Maddie\'s older sister reacts by staying out late, and her parents are always distracted by the search for Strum.
Nothing will fill the void of her beloved oldest sibling, Strum.
When twelve-year-old Maddie\'s older brother vanishes from his college campus, her carefully ordered world falls apart.
A brother\'s disappearance turns one family upside down, revealing painful secrets that threaten the life they\'ve always known
