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Hold-Time Violations parent’s guide: what’s inside
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This is a short science fiction story centered on a teenage girl using physics knowledge to save her universe while dealing with her mother's coma. The narrative emphasizes problem-solving, family bonds, and intellectual resilience without graphic content. The emotional weight of a parent's illness and existential stakes provide modest mature themes, but the story remains thoughtful and accessible for older middle-grade and teen readers.
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Ellie is on her way to visit her comatose mother when her sister sends her to repair physics. Each universe has skunkworks that generate the universe within it, making this multiverse a set of matryoshka dolls. The skunkworks that generate this universe have become faulty, and the physical constants suddenly...aren't.... Ellie is on her way to visit her comatose mother when her sister sends her to repair physics. Each universe has skunkworks that generate the universe within it, making this multiverse a set of matryoshka dolls. The skunkworks that generate this universe have become faulty, and the physical constants suddenly...aren't. In order to fix the skunkworks, to make physics self-consistent again, and to make the world work as it's supposed to, Ellie will have to remember everything her mother has taught her. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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- Fiction, science fiction, general
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ISBN 9780765384584 · Macmillan