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The Science of Breakable Things

by Tae Keller · 2018

An emotionally-charged new classic about the science of hope, love, and miracles! Natalie's uplifting story of using the scientific method to "save" her mother from depression is sure to take root in readers' hearts! How… more

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A scientist never apologizes for asking questions. Questions keep us alive.
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You can’t always protect breakable things. Hearts and eggs will break but you keep going anyway, because science is asking questions and living is not being afraid of the answer.
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Science is asking questions. And living is not being afraid of the answer
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It's always so awkward when adults comment on your age. They look at you and say You're still so young or You're getting so old, and you want to shake your head and say I'm not young or old. I'm just me.
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I've been thinking more about perennial plants. About how sometimes life needs to go underground, bury itself deep to survive, and how maybe that's not a bad thing. It's just necessary. And that's okay." -Natalie
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Natalie, you aren't the captain because you do everything right and stay out of trouble. You're the captain because you bring us all together" -Twig
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Holidays, apparently, don’t make people happy. They just remind us of what we’re missing every other day of the year.
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As it turns out, you can't always protect breakable things. Hearts and eggs will break, and everything changes, but you keep going anyway" -Natalie
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Dari said as one of the twigs snapped.
Do you think Isaac Newton would be proud or alarmed that his famous laws have been turned into a hashtag?" -Natalie

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An emotionally-charged new classic about the science of hope, love, and miracles! Natalie's uplifting story of using the scientific method to "save" her mother from depression is sure to take root in readers' hearts!

How do you grow a miracle? For the record, this is not the question Mr. Neely is looking for when he says everyone in class must answer an important question using the scientific method. But Natalie's botanist mother is suffering from depression, so this is The Question that's important to Natalie. When Mr. Neely suggests that she enter an egg drop competition, Natalie has hope. Eggs are breakable. Hope is not.Natalie has a secret plan for the prize money. She's going to fly her mother to see the Cobalt Blue Orchids--flowers that survive against impossible odds. The magical flowers are sure to inspire her mother to love life again. Because when parents are breakable, it's

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First published
2018
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4.12 (5k ratings)

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