What I loved most about their friendship is how genuine and real it felt, how there was so much love in it, but also conflict like between any 12 year olds navigating the dynamics of a new friendship while also dealing with their own grief and heartache, but being there for each other above all. Don't get me wrong, I knew this book deals with grief, it's right there in the synopsis, but what I didn't expect is how beautiful the depiction was and how soft and tender and heart achingly sweet this book would be.Ĭlues to the Universe is a story set in the 1980s (which I didn't know, for some reason I thought it was a contemporary) that showcases a beautiful friendship between Ro, a biracial Chinese-American girl whose only dream is to be a rocket scientist and Benji, a white boy whose head is full of dreams and fictional stories he renders in drawings. This book tore my heart to pieces and put it back together and I did NOT see that coming. “Charming, poignant, and thoughtfully woven.Content warnings: grief, death of a parent, parental abandonment, bullying. “It’s impossible not to root for Ro and Benji as they discover the fun of imperfection, the wisdom that comes with failure, and the joy to be found in unexpected friendships.” - Booklist But when a mix-up turns the unlikely pair into friends, Benji helps Ro build her rocket, and Ro helps Benji search through his comics-and across the country-to find out where his dad truly could be.Īs the two face bullying, loss, and their own differences, Benji and Ro try to piece together clues to some of the biggest questions in the universe. Ro and Benji were only supposed to be science class partners. In fact, he’s convinced his long-lost dad, who walked out on his family years ago, created his favorite comic book series, Spacebound–but has no way to reach him.
Artist Benji loves superheroes and comic books. Yet she’s reeling from her dad’s unexpected death, and all she has left of him is a half-built model rocket and a crater-sized grief that she doesn’t know how to cope with. Aspiring rocket scientist Ro normally has a plan for everything. On the surface, Rosalind Ling Geraghty and Benjamin Burns are completely different. This debut about losing and finding family, forging unlikely friendships, and searching for answers to questions bigger than yourself will resonate with fans of Erin Entrada Kelly, Sara Pennypacker, and Rebecca Stead. A Washington Post KidsPost Summer Book Club Pick
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