Warga lives in the Chicago area with her family. In her research over the course of writing the book, she interviewed members of Cincinnati's Syrian community. She was inspired to write the book after visiting a Syrian family friend in 2013 and watching the interactions between his cousins born in America and cousins who had come to America from Syria. Her 2019 children's book about a Syrian refugee living in Ohio, Other Words for Home, won a Newbery Honor as well as other awards. Warga was inspired to write the young adult novel after the unexpected death of a close friend. Warga's debut novel, My Heart and Other Black Holes, published in 2015, is about depressed and suicidal teenagers. While still teaching, she began writing stories.

After graduating college, Warga worked as a sixth grade science teacher in Texas. She also earned her MFA in creative writing at Lesley University. She graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in history and art history. Warga was born in Cincinnati to an American mother and immigrant Jordanian father. Her free verse book Other Words for Home received a Newbery Honor in 2020. The Shape of Thunder is a deeply moving story, told with exceptional grace, about friendship and loss-and how believing in impossible things can help us heal.Jasmine Warga (born April 24, 1988) is an American children's and young adult book author. But as they attempt to unravel the mysteries of time travel to save their siblings, they learn that the magic of their friendship may actually be the key to saving themselves.

And so the two former friends begin working together to open a wormhole in the fabric of the universe. In spite of herself, Cora wants to believe.

She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time to the moment before her brother changed all their lives forever-and stop him.

On the day of Cora’s twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did. An extraordinary new novel from Jasmine Warga, Newbery Honor–winning author of Other Words for Home, about loss and healing-and how friendship can be magical.Ĭora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year.ĭespite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief.

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