Trajectory by Gordon, Cambria 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2024)

BTSB #: 386822 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   


Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Jews - United States - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction Mathematicians - Fiction Bildungsromans

Summary: As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.

Worst-case Collin by Caprara, Rebecca 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2021)

BTSB #: 185805 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.5 MG Lexile: 680

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Novels in verse Hoarders - Fiction Grief - Fiction Death - Fiction Father-son relationship - Fiction Mathematicians - Fiction Friendship - Fiction

Summary: In the two years since his mother was killed in an automobile crash, Collin has been anticipating further disasters, writing down what to do in the event of an avalanche or mentally practicing the Heimlich maneuver just in case--but the real trouble is that his mathematician father is obsessed with a classic math problem and has a hoarding problem that is spiraling out of control, leaving Collin desperate to hide this chaos from his friends and everyone else, even as he struggles with his own grief.