Candace, the Universe, and Everything by Smith, Sherri L.

Candace, the Universe, and Everything

A speculative middle grade novel about three generations of Black girls connected across time and space through...
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Author: Sherri L. Smith
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Language: English
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Candace, the Universe, and Everything by Smith, Sherri L.

Candace, the Universe, and Everything

$29.33

Candace, the Universe, and Everything

$29.33
Author: Sherri L. Smith
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A speculative middle grade novel about three generations of Black girls connected across time and space through a wormhole in their school locker.

What if your locker was a wormhole to the past?

On the first day of eighth grade, Candace Wells opens her locker and is astonished when an unusual bird flies out. Soon after, a notebook mysteriously appears on the top shelf, labeled Tracey Auburn, 1988. Stranger still, as Candace reads the notebook, new messages start to appear.

Professor Tracey Auburn only vaguely remembers a bird flying into her locker in eighth grade, way back in 1988, and losing a notebook she could have sworn she put on the top shelf. Until Candace shows up at her office with the missing notebook forty years later.

Quantum physicist Loretta Spencer will never forget the bird flying out of her locker in eighth grade in 1948. Her life's work has been to study the portal and others like it, and now she needs Tracey's and Candace's help to complete her research.

So begins an unlikely friendship and a hunt around Chicago and the state of Illinois to uncover the secrets of the locker, the universe, and everything. One thing's for sure: Eighth grade will never be the same again.

Author: Sherri L. Smith
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Published: 09/09/2025
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781524737931
Audience: Ages 9-12


Review Citation(s):
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2025
Publishers Weekly 06/09/2025
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2025
Shelf Awareness 07/02/2025
School Library Journal 09/01/2025 pg. 81

About the Author
Sherri L. Smith is the author of numerous acclaimed fiction and nonfiction books for young people, including American Wings: Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky, co-authored with Elizabeth Wein; Flygirl, the winner of the California Book Awards' Gold Medal; The Blossom and the Firefly, the winner of the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators; Orleans; and Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen?

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