Visit her at, follow her monthly love letters at bit.ly/lovetae, and find her on Twitter and Instagram. She is the Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Trap a Tiger and The Science of Breakable Things. About the Author: TAE KELLER was born and raised in Honolulu, where she grew up on purple rice, Spam musubi, and her halmoni's tiger stories. With their help, Natalie begins an unforgettable journey to discover the science of hope, love, and miracles. Her friends step up to show her that talking about problems is like taking a plant out of a dark cupboard and exposing it to the sun. Her mother has been suffering from depression, and Natalie is positive that the flowers' magic will inspire her mom to fall in love with life again. One of the themes in this book is mental trauma, name two other books that have the similar theme and what character that suffers from the illness. With the prize money, she can fly her botanist mother to see the miraculous Cobalt Blue Orchids-flowers with the resilience to survive against impossible odds. When Natalie's science teacher suggests that she enter an egg drop competition, she thinks it could be the perfect solution to all of her problems. This is an uplifting story about friendship, family, and the complicated science of the heart. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY - KIRKUS REVIEWS The spectacular debut novel from the Newbery Award winning author of When You Trap a Tiger.
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