She starts to doubt herself and to give up on bringing the family together, and the boys finally begin to notice her contributions to their home. The Challenger explosion shakes all their worlds, especially Bird’s. Each sibling’s story is told in alternating chapters, showing their perspective about this event and the other happenings in school and at home. The story is told over the course of the weeks leading up to the Challenger launch in January, 1986. Cash is feeling like he’s not good at anything after failing seventh grade the first time and getting cut from the basketball team. Fitch loves hanging out at the arcade playing video games, but struggles with his anger. Bird is a good student, passionate about space exploration, who longs for her family to be closer. Summary: Bird, Fitch, and Cash are siblings in the seventh grade (Bird and Fitch are twins, and Cash was held back a year), but their orbits rarely intersect.
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