The Everybody Experiment
The Everybody Experiment
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Annotation: From the award-winning author of A Good Kind of Trouble, Lisa Moore Ramée, comes a hilarious and heartfelt young middle ... more
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #381544
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Copyright Date: 2024
Edition Date: 2024 Release Date: 08/27/24
Pages: 266 pages
ISBN: 0-06-303947-8
ISBN 13: 978-0-06-303947-6
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2023944487
Dimensions: 22 cm
Language: English
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Kirkus Reviews

A young scientist in the Seattle area designs an experiment to prove she's just as mature as her friends.Kylie Stanton, who's Black, has always been different from her best friends as a budding scientist, a karate brown belt-and an unintentional crybaby. Black and Filipino Naomi, Indian American Nikila, and white Mara never used to mind Kylie's sensitive nature, but everything's changing as they prepare for middle school. Kylie worries they'll decide she's "too babyish to hang out with." Desperate to keep her friends, Kylie designs an experiment for the summer before seventh grade to prove she's mature by not crying and doing everything her friends do. It seems like a foolproof plan, until she finds herself agreeing to things she doesn't want to do and giving up things she does. She's further confused by Naomi, who's been lying, keeping secrets, and being uncharacteristically mean and moody. Is that what it means to be mature? Is that really who she wants to be? Kylie is an endearing, relatable protagonist readers will root for. She wrestles with moral conundrums and situations that cause confusing emotions in ways that are never didactic; this balance keeps readers interested while encouraging them to think independently. Kylie's incremental growth is realistic and well developed, leading to a satisfying conclusion. The strong representation of a loving Black family and the accessible demonstration of the scientific method in action are added bonuses.Heartwarming and empowering. (Fiction. 8-12)

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Kirkus Reviews
Word Count: 50,889
Reading Level: 5.1
Interest Level: 3-6
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.1 / points: 8.0 / quiz: 550282 / grade: Middle Grades

From the award-winning author of A Good Kind of Trouble, Lisa Moore Ramée, comes a hilarious and heartfelt young middle grade novel, in the vein of Judy Blume, about friendship, fitting in, and the ups and downs of middle school. Sure to resonate with fans of Rebecca Stead, Meg Medina, and Kelly Yang.

Eleven-year-old Kylie’s friends seem so much more mature than she is. And with middle school just a summer away, she’s worried her friends might leave her behind, especially because she keeps embarrassing them.

So Kylie applies her scientific brain to solve the problem and comes up with the Everybody Experiment:

Hypothesis: Kylie Stanton will be mature if she does what everybody else does.

Experiment: This summer, when all of Kylie’s friends do something, she will do it too.

Suddenly it’s a whole new grown-up world for Kylie, with parties, unsupervised excursions, and boys. But the more research Kylie puts into the Everybody Experiment, the more she begins to wonder how she can do what everybody else does . . . without letting go of herself.

Praise for The Everybody Experiment:

"Kylie is an endearing, relatable protagonist readers will root for...heartwarming and empowering." —Kirkus Reviews

“A meaningful and methodological story of friendship, family, and finding one’s own voice.” —The Horn Book

"Ramée’s middle grade novel is well paced, traversing Kylie’s summer with ease and dipping the reader into pivotal moments." —ALA Booklist


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