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When his father shoots himself and ends up blind, Nate Chance s world is thrown into a tailspin as the members of his family retreat from reality, but not wanting to become the tragedy s next victim, Nate sets his sights on winning the science fair by building the cloud chamber that he and his father had planned to do before everything went wrong.
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The school bus drops Nate off one afternoon, and everything has changed: Police cruisers are perched round his house, and an officer is leading Nate's father into an ambulance. It appears that Nate's father has attempted to shoot himself, though as his father is incoherent and there is no weapon to be found, the police start to question his mother. Fourteen-year-old Nate finds himself a pariah at school and in their rural town. He's assigned to another marginalized student, Naomi, for a partner in the Science Fair, and they set out to create a cloud chamber: an experiment in which cosmic dust is made visible. The state finals are near the hospital where his father is incommunicado and Nate hopes to make it there. Maynard's narrative style is smooth and natural, and her characterization of Nate as an adolescent caught in a social vacuum, his thoughts spiraling desperately towards the cosmos, is apt. Readers drawn to quiet, complex character stories will appreciate this emotionally true offering. (Fiction. 13-17) (Kirkus Reviews)
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Joyce Maynard started her writing career when she was fourteen. Her books include the memoirs At Home in the World and Looking Back and the novels To Die For (which was made into a movie starring Nicole Kidman) and, most recently, The Usual Rules (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults). The mother of three grown children, she lives in northern California. Visit her Web site at www.joycemaynard.com.
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