Our narrator, Yuri, is a 17 year old genius from Russia who was brought to the United States to try and help stop an asteroid that is hurtling towards California and threatens its very existence. Because his theories on antimatter haven't been fully explored, nobody will listen to him. Along the way he meets Dovie, a 16 year old girl who will teach him what being a teenager and having friends is all about. Being a boy genius, he has never quite lived like a normal kid, but he is about to start dipping his toes in that water.
Will he help stop the asteroid in time to give himself a chance at some normalcy, or will his life be over before he ever has the opportunity to learn some American swear words? Kennedy's wonderful debut will keep you flipping the pages as you try and figure all of this out?
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An asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. A big, bad one. Maybe not kill-all-the-dinosaurs bad, but at least kill-everyone-in-California-and-wipe-out-Japan-with-a-tsunami bad. Yuri, a physicist prodigy from Russia, has been recruited to aid NASA as they calculate a plan to avoid disaster.
The good news is Yuri knows how to stop the asteroid--his research in antimatter will probably win him a Nobel prize if there's ever another Nobel prize awarded. But the trouble is, even though NASA asked for his help, no one there will listen to him. He's seventeen, and they've been studying physics longer than he's been alive.
Then he meets (pretty, wild, unpredictable) Dovie, who lives like a normal teenager, oblivious to the impending doom. Being with her, on the adventures she plans when he's not at NASA, Yuri catches a glimpse of what it means to save the world and live a life worth saving.
Prepare to laugh, cry, cringe, and have your mind burst open with the questions of the universe.
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