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Shooting for Stars

Christine Webb

Ages: 14+

Published: 2024

Publisher: Peachtree Teen/Peachtree Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-68263-601-5

Keywords: Romance-scientists, nuclear physics, SATs, videos, friendship, volleyball, NASA, grief, single parent families, orphans, guilt, siblings

Skyler wants to complete her dead mother's scientific research, but does she want that more than a budding romance? And does anything justify lying to her father?