The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day

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Different story and quite creative book I'll say. light and good read. a bit of humor was also present which i liked. ☺️ the book could be a good movie for kids no doubt. 💕 Other reviewers mentioned that there’s an awful lot of science in this book, and I didn’t really take them seriously… but wow. There’s a TON of science in here–I mean that in terms of quantity, not density. I also want to mention that the story has a dark edge that I wasn’t expecting. There’s some emotional weight to the last quarter of the book that will probably fall on readers who aren’t ready for it (in fun twisty ways and in jarring, horrifying ways). By the end, however, it’s all come together into something rather sweet and uplifting. Edge] . . . has a magical way of distilling difficult concepts [like] relativity, gravity, time and space, infinity. . . .He weaves these ideas into a high-energy thriller.” –The Times (UK) Post-#metoo, it's time we started rewriting the old narratives around sexual harassment. If you're going to write a story that borrows heavily from theoretical physics and aims to push the boundaries, why not do the same for social norms like sexual harassment? I'd love to see the author show the characters finding a way to stand up to the bullying they face, or perhaps have other characters who interfere to show this is no longer acceptable. Let's show a new kind of story, especially when we're writing for children.

It's Maisie Day's birthday and she turns 10. Her biggest sister, Lily is 15 years old and hates her younger sibling. Next chapter shows us her day starting normal, her parents getting ready for her birthday and preparing food, the gazebo outside and interacting as they usually do.

The story is told in alternating chapters between two timelines that diverge from the point Maisie wakes up on her tenth birthday. In one timeline, Maisie's family have mysteriously disappeared and her house is behaving very strangely. In the other, Maisie's birthday continues as normal, where Edge shows us more of Maisie and her sister Lily's relationship.

I am most certainly not what you would call a sci fi fan but Christopher Edge has created a world - a mash of of science & ordinary day to day- that is just an absolute pleasure to read. I like that in each book (at least this and The Longest Night of Charlie Noon that I read so far from him) Christopher is teaching us about life stuff, like time and space and science and the universe through the eyes of a child. Until she wakes up and soon realizes that no one is home. And when she's opening the door, all she can see is darkness. Wow, I wish Christopher Edge had been my science teacher. This gripping story, has a magical way of distilling difficult concepts into a high-energy thriller. The Times, Children's Book of the Week PDF / EPUB File Name: The_infinite_lives_of_maisie_day_-_Christopher_edge.pdf, The_infinite_lives_of_maisie_day_-_Christopher_edge.epubWinner of the STEAM Children's Book Prize,the Fantastic Book Award and the Ysgol Bae Baglan Book Award. Nominated for the 2019 CILIP Carnegie Medal. Shortlisted for the Leeds Book Award, the Derbyshire Schools' Book Award, the Salford Children's Book Award, the Sheffield Children's Book Award, the Wolverhampton Children's Book Awardand the Brilliant Book Award. Longlisted for the Leicester LibrariesOur Best Book Award and the Berkshire Book Award. A heartbreaking, head-melting science fiction mystery from the superlative Christopher Edge." --The Guardian

No one writes books like Christopher Edge, and this is another fascinating, tender, and excellent adventure. Kiran Millwood Hargrave His stories mix a warm humanity with a wonderful ability to introduce us to some of the most intriguing theories about our universe. Robin Ince It's very short (only 3 hours to listen to) but like nothing I've read before, and certainly unique amongst children's books. There is juvenile fiction with similar protagonists but not a story like this one. I'll look forward to listening to it with my son (aged 7) when he's older. This book will likely be appealing to a young reader who is on the verge of jumping right into adult sci-fi but would just as soon read something with a more relatable character. I worry, however, that many will be turned off by the protagonist (why is she a next-level prodigy? wouldn’t the story work just fine if she were a garden-variety genius?) and the sheer volume of mini science lessons. The narrator is a mature female actor, but the voice sounded spot on for a pre-adolescent girl, she was well-suited to the character of Maisie. The only time the audiobook grated on me was in the 'nowhere' storyline as Maisie panics and the shrillness of the voice was a little annoying.

Christopher Edge Press Reviews

The infinite lives of Maisie Day" is written by @christopheredge . Maisie Day is an autistic 10 years old girl who experiences weird and strange events on her 10th birthday. she is "academically gifted" and is genius daughter compared to her elder sister "Lily". On her 10th birthday when she wakes up she finds her house empty and her parents and Lily has been disappeared. Maisie is experiencing two contrasting days on her birthday which puts the reader in curiosity. As in Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, math and science inform this mind-bending mystery about a girl who must work with the laws of the universe and trust the love of her family if she is to set her world right. A mind-bending mystery for anyone who's ever asked questions. From the author of The Many Worlds of Albie Bright and The Jamie Drake Equation. Cover illustration by Matt Saunders. About This Edition ISBN: Gripping, terrifying and eye-poppingly original. Grabs hold of your brain—then tugs at your heart.”—Jonathan Stroud, author of the bestselling Bartimaeus Trilogy The dreary prospect of spending a lifetime making caskets instead of wonderful inventions prompts a young orphan to snatch up his little sister and flee. Where? To the circus, of course.