The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day
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Publisher Description
As in Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, math and science inform this mind-bending mystery about a girl who must work with the laws of the universe and trust the love of her family if she is to set her world right.
It's the morning of Maisie's tenth birthday, and she can't wait to open her presents. Maisie is not a typical kid. What she wants most for her birthday are the things she needs to build her own nuclear reactor. But she wakes to an empty house, and outside the front door is nothing but an unsettling, all-consuming blackness--a shifted reality. Even for super-smart Maisie, these puzzling circumstances seem out of her control . . . or are they?
A CLIP Carnegie Medal Children's Book Award Nominee
"A heartbreaking, head-melting science fiction mystery from the superlative Christopher Edge."--The Guardian
"[Edge] . . . has a magical way of distilling difficult concepts [like] relativity, gravity, time and space, infinity. . . .He weaves these ideas into a high-energy thriller."--The Times (UK)
"Gripping, terrifying and eye-poppingly original. Grabs hold of your brain--then tugs at your heart." --Jonathan Stroud, author of the bestselling Bartimaeus Trilogy
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Some people say that everything began with a Big Bang, but for me, that's the last thing I really remember," begins this layered and sometimes dizzying story of sisterhood, physics, and fringe science. It's Maisie Day's 10th birthday, and she hopes to receive a nuclear reactor from her parents so that she can unravel the science of cold fusion. Instead, though, a rift with her 15-year old sister, Lily, lands her in a baffling conundrum: Maisie is caught in a seemingly infinite loop, reliving her birthday again and again while a Vantablack darkness encroaches. Academically gifted with an interest in "how the universe works," Maisie guides readers through the mystery of her endlessly repeating birthday, defining scientific theories and jargon in simple, relatable terms. In demonstrating entropy, for example, Maisie shatters eggs, illustrating that, while the same atoms exist, they are now disordered and chaotic. As in previous novels, Edge (The Jamie Drake Equation) skillfully weds advanced scientific theories with buried emotional trauma, this time crafting a moving story about sibling relationships, trust, and forgiveness. Ages 10 up.
