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A Catalog of Burnt Objects

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Wait time: About 4 weeks
The powerful story of a girl struggling to figure out her estranged brother, a new love, and her own life just as wildfires beset her small California town—perfect for fans of Nina LaCour and Kathleen Glasgow
Seventeen-year-old Caprice wants to piece her family back together now that her older brother has returned home, even as she resents that he ever broke them apart. Just as she starts to get a new footing—falling in love for the first time, uncertainly mending her traumatized relationship with her brother, completing the app that will win her a college scholarship and a job in tech—wildfires strike Sierra, her small California town, forcing her to reckon with a future that is impossible to predict.
A love story of many kinds, and a reflection of the terrifying, heartbreaking Camp Fire that destroyed Paradise, California, where the author grew up, this is a tale that looks at what is lost and discovers what remains, and how a family can be nearly destroyed again and again, and still survive.
“Gorgeous worldbuilding [and] depth . . . Swoony [and] unputdownable.” —BCCB
"Smart and moving . . . beautiful." —Kirkus (starred review)
"Eloquent . . . well-drawn, realistic . . . Goes straight to the heart.” —Booklist (starred review)
"A thoughtful, hopeful tight-rope walk between first loss and first love." —Daisy Garrison, author of Six More Months of June
"Heart-wrenching and lyrical." —Jeff Zentner, author of In The Wild Light
“You can’t help but fall in love with the world inside this book.” —Helena Fox, award-winning author of How It Feels to Float
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 10, 2025
      Youngdahl (As Many Nows as I Can Get) draws on personal experience navigating the 2018 Camp Fire that destroyed her Paradise, Calif., hometown to deliver a wrenching story of resilience and healing. Seventeen-year-old Caprice Alexander is at a crossroads: she simultaneously loves her Sierra, Calif., town and can’t wait to graduate and leave for college. Things at home grow tense when her unpredictable older brother, Beckett, returns following months spent in a rehabilitation center for an alcohol dependency. Cappy resents Beckett and feels that his drinking tore their family apart. She distracts herself by diving into her personal project developing an app, hoping to use it to kick-start a career in tech. Then tragedy strikes when a wildfire devastates her town. Chapter titles serve as a countdown to the climactic event, and periodic interstitials narrated by various characters provide insight to happenings before, during, and after the fire. Cappy’s first-person POV reflects her analytical mind, while parallel recovery journeys—following Beckett post-rehab and the citizens of Sierra post-fire—center family, friends, and community in this lengthy and visceral novel. The Alexanders are white. Ages 12–up.

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