This year's Newbery winner is a historical fiction story set in a small Kansas town during 1936. It centers around young Abilene Tucker, who arrives new to the town of Manifest right as summer is starting.
The story alternates between Abilene's current time in Manifest (in 1936) and what she hopes is her father's time in the town (in 1918). As she pieces together parts of the town's past and learns more about her own, she comes to some personal understandings about people in the town and about her own family.
The story was a slower read for me, but I did find the back and forth format between past and present helped keep me interested in finding out what happened next. Overall, I'd recommend it to upper-elementary school kids already into historical fiction.
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