- Love, Schools, Family problems, Prejudices
"Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love the person she really wants to: another girl named Dee. There's no one Astrid feels she can talk to about this deep secret or the profound questions that she's trying to answer. But little does she know just how much sending her love--and asking the right questions--will affect the passengers' lives, and her own, for the better"--
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Contemporary, earnest, spare and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- A. S. King
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 315
- Publisher
- Random House, Little, Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780449015117
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 1 have read it and 15 want to.
Prinz award winner
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
How to Read a Book 202484% alikeBoth contemporary, earnest, grave.
Walk Two Moons 199482% alikeBoth contemporary, earnest, spare.
Disappoint Me 202581% alikeBoth contemporary, spare, classical in form.
Are you listening? 201981% alikeBoth contemporary, earnest, grave.
Tout le bleu du ciel 202081% alikeBoth contemporary, spare, earnest.
Eleven Minutes 200381% alikeBoth contemporary, grave, earnest.
Both contemporary, earnest, grave.
The Deal of a Lifetime 201780% alikeBoth contemporary, spare, earnest.
Phoebe in Wonderland 200886% alikeFilm · Both contemporary, earnest, spare.
My Days of Mercy 201884% alikeFilm · Both contemporary, grave, earnest.