The Atlas of Us
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Romance / Contemporary
2.9
Kristin Dwyer
“A complete knockout. Readers will be thinking of this story long after they finish the final page.” —Adalyn Grace, New York Times bestselling author of Belladonna“Utterly compelling and impossible to put down.” —Rachel Griffin, New York Times bestselling author of Bring Me Your Midnight“I’ve never read a book that felt so much like picking up pieces of a broken heart—powerful, poignant, and true.” —Axie Oh, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea and XOXOAtlas has lost her way.In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she’s working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad’s favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is.Using real names is forbidden on the trail. So Atlas becomes Maps, and with her team—Books, Sugar, Junior, and King—she heads into the wilderness. As she sheds the lies she’s built up as walls to protect herself, she realizes that four strangers might know her better than anyone has before. And with the end of the trail racing to meet them, Maps is left counting down the days until she returns to her old life—without her new family, and without King, who’s become more than just a friend.
Young Adult
Coming Of Age
AD
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Author
Kristin Dwyer
Pages
336
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2024-01-09
ISBN
0063088606 9780063088603
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"I enjoyed this book in the beginning, but then it felt like it really dragged and Maps/Atlas grated on me as a narrator. It felt like the four of them spent most of the trail angry or irritated with each other so it seemed strange then at the end they seemed to have grown close. The relationship with King was frustrating too--in general it irked me how no one communicated anything true on the trail. Finally when Maps/Atlas heads home she allows herself to grieve for her dad and that was the strongest part of the story. Seeing her grow and reconnect with her trail mates. I liked the friendship that developed between Books and her--I was wishing we found out more of their back stories that lead them to be on the hike."