The Wall Street Journal

despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child

Suffused with questions about the nature of change and friendship

The new girl

This book tells that story

To the Moon and Back theory The Wall Street JournalOne young woman's relentless quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut will irrevocably alter the fates of the people she loves most in this tour de force of a debut about ambition, belonging, and family. My mother took my sister and me, and she drove through the night to a place she felt a claim to, a place on earth she thought we might be safe. I stopped asking questions. I picked little glass pieces from my sister's hair. I watched the moon.