A review by ljrinaldi
A Long Way from Home by Laura Schaefer
4.0
This books deserves more love than it appears to be getting. The cover doesn’t draw you in as much as it should.
Abby is anxious about how bad the world is. She has no hope for the future, and feels that she is currently living in a dystopia, and no one realizes it.
She has been forced to move to Florida, for her Mom’s space work, and she resents it.
And then she meets Adam and Bix, two boys from the future, and the give her a glimpse of what their time looks like, and she realizes that is the answer to her dilemma. Escape to the future where everything is hunky dory.
I like how the book included the parents in the story. So often when there is something magical or fantastic, the parents are left out, but not only does she engage her mother, in the end, but also her great aunt, whom her mother is estranged from.
I was so worried, reading the book, that it would all be a trick, and that the boys weren’t *really* from the future, but i finally let down my guard when Abby gets a glimpse of their time.
Cool story, and cool how she solves the mystery of their missing companion, whom they have come to rescue.
A great middle grade read. I hope more people discover it when it comes out in October 2022.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
Abby is anxious about how bad the world is. She has no hope for the future, and feels that she is currently living in a dystopia, and no one realizes it.
She has been forced to move to Florida, for her Mom’s space work, and she resents it.
And then she meets Adam and Bix, two boys from the future, and the give her a glimpse of what their time looks like, and she realizes that is the answer to her dilemma. Escape to the future where everything is hunky dory.
I like how the book included the parents in the story. So often when there is something magical or fantastic, the parents are left out, but not only does she engage her mother, in the end, but also her great aunt, whom her mother is estranged from.
I was so worried, reading the book, that it would all be a trick, and that the boys weren’t *really* from the future, but i finally let down my guard when Abby gets a glimpse of their time.
Cool story, and cool how she solves the mystery of their missing companion, whom they have come to rescue.
A great middle grade read. I hope more people discover it when it comes out in October 2022.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.