The List of Things That Will Not Change
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EIGHT STARRED REVIEWS! The reassuring book kids and families need right now. "An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love." --R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of Wonder At a time when everything is changing for Bea and her family, the important things will always stay the same. A soon-to-be classic by the Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach Me. After her parents' divorce, Bea's life became different in many ways. But she can always look back at the list she keeps in her green notebook to remember the things that will stay the same. The first and most important: Mom and Dad will always love Bea, and each other. When Dad tells Bea that he and his boyfriend, Jesse, are getting married, Bea is thrilled. Bea loves Jesse, and when he and Dad get married, she'll finally (finally!) have what she's always wanted--a sister. Even though she's never met Jesse's daughter, Sonia, Bea is sure that they'll be "just like sisters anywhere." As the wedding day approaches, Bea will learn that making a new family brings questions, surprises, and joy, and readers will discover why the New York Times called Rebecca Stead a "writer of great feeling." "An undeniably beautiful book." --The New York Times "No author writing today observes young lives with more clarity, tenderness, and grace." --Newbery Medalist Katherine Applegate, author of The One and Only Ivan "Stead truly understands the inner life of kids." --Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, author of Hello, Universe and You Go First
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The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead is a Middle Grades Contemporary fiction novel about a girl who is dealing with all the emotions of her parents being divorced and her dad remarrying. This book was a nomination for Goodreads Choice Awards Middle Grades. So I thought, why not see what the hype is about, and my god, it is a fantastic children's novel.
Looking back to the books that were available to me as a child and comparing it to this one is extremely drastic. I had books like Goosebumps, Magic Tree House, Animorphs, A Series of Unfortunate Events, etc but I never really came across anything like this novel. But I'm really glad I've read it now.
The book is about a girl named Beatrice (Bea) who's parents get divorced because her Dad is gay. But he ends up remarrying the love of his life and the novel is from Bea's point of view on how she if feeling with having to go back and forth between her parents and how she deals with her feelings of not only growing up but just everything that comes along with new beginnings and such.
I think I really loved this book because I was around her age when my parents divorced so I could really relate to how she was feeling. I found myself almost in shock by how spot on her feelings are in comparison to how mine were or even are today about the whole situation. It was very nice to see Bea grow up as the book went on and see her grow into understanding her own feelings and realize that it is okay to feel all the emotions that she was feeling. The end of the book was nice and sweet, I definitely would recommend this for a middle grades book.
4/5 stars
Had to make this my first Golden Sower read of 2022-2023 because someone tried to kick it off for The Gay. This is the first I've read Rebecca Stead and I'll definitely be reading more.
