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By kelis rowe, by kelis rowe read by joniece abbott-pratt and langston darby, category: teen & young adult fiction | teen & young adult romance | teen & young adult social issues, category: teen & young adult fiction | teen & young adult romance | teen & young adult social issues | audiobooks.

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Sparks fly when Orion and Ray meet for the first time at a roller rink in Memphis. But these star-crossed souls have a past filled with secrets that threaten to tear them apart before their love story even begins. Found poetry, grief, and fate collide in this powerful debut. Ray: Just once I’d like my birthday to be about me, and not the day my father died. I want to be Ray Jr., the tall girl from Memphis with the poetry beats and the braids that stay poppin’. And when I meet Orion at the skating rink, that’s exactly who I am. He pulls my hand, and instead of being defined by my past, he races me toward my future. Orion: When I dive into the pool, it’s just me and my heartbeat. There’s no dad, no dead sister, and no distracting noises. But I can’t hold my breath forever. And since I met Ray, I don’t want to. The closer we get, though, the more I see I’m not the only one caught in her wake. With a lyrical blend of found poetry and poignant prose and the addition of black and white illustrations, this stunning debut captures young Black love and a decades-old family secret that may shatter a romance that feels written in the stars.

Sparks fly when Orion and Ray meet for the first time at a roller rink in Memphis. But these star-crossed souls have a past filled with secrets that threaten to tear them apart before their love story even begins. Found poetry, grief, and fate collide in this powerful debut. “ Finding Jupiter is a lyrical story of love, loss, and understanding with a heart as big as the sky… Breathtaking.” — Jennifer Niven, #1 NY Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places Ray: Just once I’d like my birthday to be about me, and not the day my father died. I want to be Ray Jr., the tall girl from Memphis with the poetry beats and the braids that stay poppin’. And when I meet Orion at the skating rink, that’s exactly who I am. He pulls my hand, and instead of being defined by my past, he races me toward my future. Orion: When I dive into the pool, it’s just me and my heartbeat. There’s no dad, no dead sister, and no distracting noises. But I can’t hold my breath forever. And since I met Ray, I don’t want to. The closer we get, though, the more I see I’m not the only one caught in her wake. With a lyrical blend of found poetry and poignant prose and the addition of black and white illustrations, this stunning debut captures young Black love and a decades-old family secret that may shatter a romance that feels written in the stars.

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KELIS ROWE lives and writes out of her home in Austin, Texas, suburbia and spends her summers traveling with her husband and son. During her past life as a market research analyst, Kelis kept her creative juices flowing after-hours as a blogger and YouTuber,… More about Kelis Rowe

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“Rowe leaves readers with a story that features three- dimensional characters who are beautifully flawed and unerringly honest. A love story that deserves to be told. ” –Booklist “Packed with introspective prose, emphatic characters, and undeniable romantic chemistry .” –Publishers Weekly “ Rowe strikes the perfect romantic balance , keeping just enough dramatic realism to temper the idyllic sweetness of Ray and Orion’s blossoming relationship but still allowing their love to unfold tenderly.” -The Bulletin “Lush and lyrical, Finding Jupiter shows us both the healing and transformative power of love. A galaxy-bright debut .” ––Laura Taylor Namey, New York Times bestselling author of A Cuban Girl’s Guide To Tea and Tomorrow “ Self-affirming and deeply moving . Rowe tenderly reminds us that it takes courage to love and love to heal.” –J. Elle, New York Times bestselling author of Wings of Ebony “ A sparkling debut !” –Liara Tamani, author of All the Things We Never Knew “A relevant, heartwarming love story for a generation— it will gut you and then put you back together again.”  –Kristen R. Lee, author of Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman “With cinematic storytelling, undeniable chemistry, and a fresh set of authentic characters, this story left me feeling comforted, inspired, and grinning ear to ear. ” –Joya Goffney, author of Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry

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FINDING JUPITER

by Kelis Rowe ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 31, 2022

An emotional debut that celebrates the joy that comes from healing.

Two teens’ summer romance gets complicated by a long-kept family secret.

Jupiter Moon Ray Evans’ parents were in a car accident the day she was born—her father died, and her mom suddenly became both a widow and a mother. Ray is named after the dad she never knew, and his absence is a tangible part of her family. She hates that her birthday can never just be about her, but this year her best friend from boarding school is coming to Memphis, and they are celebrating at the roller rink, the one place Ray can get lost in her own world. While skating she meets Orion, and for both of them, it is love at first sight. Orion is also missing a piece of his family: Almost 10 years ago his little sister was hit and killed by a bus, and his happy family was destroyed. Orion finds a feeling of peace in swimming, which helps with his sensory processing disorder as well as providing an escape from his dad’s grief. Although the two Black teens will be in different states in the fall, they tentatively pursue a relationship. However, when a family secret that links them is revealed, they must decide if they can ever be anything to one another. Through a blend of prose and found poetry, this quiet novel thoughtfully explores the impact of absence on love.

Pub Date: May 31, 2022

ISBN: 978-0-593-42925-9

Page Count: 320

Publisher: Crown

Review Posted Online: March 1, 2022

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2022

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by Ben Philippe ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 8, 2019

Despite some missteps, this will appeal to readers who enjoy a fresh and realistic teen voice.

A teenage, not-so-lonely loner endures the wilds of high school in Austin, Texas.

Norris Kaplan, the protagonist of Philippe’s debut novel, is a hypersweaty, uber-snarky black, Haitian, French-Canadian pushing to survive life in his new school. His professor mom’s new tenure-track job transplants Norris mid–school year, and his biting wit and sarcasm are exposed through his cataloging of his new world in a field guide–style burn book. He’s greeted in his new life by an assortment of acquaintances, Liam, who is white and struggling with depression; Maddie, a self-sacrificing white cheerleader with a heart of gold; and Aarti, his Indian-American love interest who offers connection. Norris’ ego, fueled by his insecurities, often gets in the way of meaningful character development. The scenes showcasing his emotional growth are too brief and, despite foreshadowing, the climax falls flat because he still gets incredible personal access to people he’s hurt. A scene where Norris is confronted by his mother for getting drunk and belligerent with a white cop is diluted by his refusal or inability to grasp the severity of the situation and the resultant minor consequences. The humor is spot-on, as is the representation of the black diaspora; the opportunity for broader conversations about other topics is there, however, the uneven buildup of detailed, meaningful exchanges and the glibness of Norris’ voice detract.

Pub Date: Jan. 8, 2019

ISBN: 978-0-06-282411-0

Page Count: 384

Publisher: Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins

Review Posted Online: Oct. 14, 2018

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 2018

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Can a 17-year-old with her first girlfriend prevent real-life folks from discovering her online fandoms?

Cass is proudly queer, happily fat, and extremely secretive about being a fan who role-plays on Discord. Back in middle school, she had what she calls a gaming addiction, playing “The Sims” so much her parents had to take the game away. Now, turning to her role-play friends to cope with her fighting parents, she worries that people will judge her for her fannishness and online life. To be fair, her grades are suffering. And sure, maybe she’s missed a college application deadline. Also, her mom has suddenly left Minneapolis and moved to Maine to be with a man she met online. But on the other hand, Cass is finally dating her amazingly cute longtime crush, Taylor. Pansexual Taylor is a gamer, a little bit punk, White like Cass, and so, so great—but she still can’t help comparing her to Rowan, Cass’ online best friend and role-playing ship partner. But Rowan doesn’t want to be a dirty little secret and doesn’t see why Cass can’t be honest about this part of her life. The inevitable train wreck of her lies looms on the horizon for months in an overlong morality play building to the climax that includes tidy resolutions to all the character arcs that are quite heartwarming but, in the case of Cass’ estranged mother, narratively unearned.

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This stunning, uplifting ya romance debut has the dual pov and high stakes of the sun is also a star with gorgeous found poetry elements worthy of the poet x ..

Sparks fly when Orion and Ray meet for the first time at a roller rink in Memphis. But these star-crossed souls have a past filled with secrets that threaten to tear them apart before their love story even begins. Found poetry, grief, and fate collide in this powerful debut.

Just once I’d like my birthday to be about me, and not the day my father died. I want to be Ray, Jr., the tall girl from Memphis with the poetry journals and the braids that stay poppin’. And when I meet Orion at the skating rink, that’s exactly who I am. He pulls my hand, and instead of being defined by my past, he makes me believe in a future.

When I dive into the pool, it’s just me and my heartbeat. There’s no dad, no dead sister, and no distracting noises. But I can’t hold my breath forever. And since I met Ray, I don’t want to. The closer we get, though, the more I see I’m not the only one caught in her wake.

With a lyrical blend of found poetry and poignant prose, Kelis Rowe delivers her stunning debut about young Black love, and the decade’s old family secret that threatens to tear them apart.

Praise for Finding Jupiter :

“Self-affirming and deeply moving. Rowe tenderly reminds us that it takes courage to love and love to heal.” — J. Elle , New York Times bestselling author of Wings of Ebony

“A sparkling debut! This fun, page-turning summer romance is packed with tenderness, insight, and hope.” — Liara Tamani , author of All the Things We Never Knew

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Kelis Rowe (pronounced kuh-lēs) lives and writes out of her home in Austin, Texas and spends her summers traveling with her husband and two young kids. During her past life as a market research analyst, Kelis kept her creative juices flowing as a blogger and YouTuber, which included a two-year stint as one of twenty national Clinique Beauty Brand Insiders and a brief assignment as an Austin   Honeybee for the ’90s urban women’s fashion and entertainment magazine Honey . Kelis grew up in Memphis, where she had her first big love. She did not see herself or her big love reflected in the pages   of a YA novel at the time, so she now writes contemporary YA to give young readers a story about Black teens falling in love.

Visit her website at kelisrowe.com . Follow her at @TheeKelisRowe on Twitter and Instagram.

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By kelis rowe, a fresh, contemporary love story from a stand-out new voice in ya..

What if Romeo & Juliet took place in Memphis in 2022? Ray has no time for romance. She's queen of the roller rink, she writes found poetry, and she’s got her eyes set on her own independent future. Besides, she’s seen what loving someone too much – and losing them – can do to a person. Orion, on the other hand, would like to be smooth with the girls. Just once. He looks like the jock his father wants him to be, but really he’s a hopeless romantic. When he spots Ray at the rink, it feels like the stars have aligned. But now it seems like something in their families' past will stand in their way, and cross their stars forever... An honest, unpredictable, funny and heartbreaking dual-POV story of love that readers will fall head over heels for.

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'Strong characterisation and warm emotional depth mark out this uplifting YA debut.' Guardian

'Self-affirming and deeply moving. Rowe tenderly reminds us that it takes courage to love and love to heal.' J. Elle, New York Times bestselling author of Wings of Ebony

'Through a blend of prose and found poetry, this novel thoughtfully explores the impact of absence on love. An emotional debut that celebrates the joy that comes from healing.' Kirkus Reviews

'An uplifting and tender debut celebrating first love and the joy that comes from healing that fans of Angie Thomas and Jandy Nelson would relish.' The School Librarian

'A sparkling debut! This fun, page-turning summer romance is packed with tenderness, insight, and hope.' Liara Tamani, author of All the Things We Never Knew

'A relevant, heartwarming love story for a generation—it will gut you and then put you back together again.' Kristen R. Lee, author of Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman

'I have nothing but praise for this tale. Rowe has written with passion, delivering an amazing novel which highlighted key themes of teenage fever, first love, fate, redemption, and the importance of maintaining healthy relationships.' Reading Time

'This is such a beautiful portrayal of young love, about two young people, hesitant at first, but who come to realise that each other is ‘the one’. Finding Jupiter by Kelis Rowe is a wonderful new contemporary novel about Black teens. The novel speaks for love, trust, honesty, and communication. Kelis Rowe is clearly a rising young author to watch out for.' Read Plus

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'The way she breaks down stereotypes of what black boys and girls should be like in romance and the pursuit of love is amazing. Black boys can be gentle, vulnerable and take it slow. Thank you @theekelisrowe for giving us black love that is pure, vulnerable, sweet, soft, gentle, romantic, and open. I can't wait to see what thr author writes next. I will always be buying her books."' Instagram

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  • Print length 336 pages
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  • Publisher Walker Books
  • Publication date 2 Jun. 2022
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Walker Books (2 Jun. 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 152950063X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1529500639
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 years and up
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm
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Kelis Rowe is a stay-at-home mom and former homeschooler who writes sweeping, classic teen romance novels from the points of view of grounded, self-possessed Black girls and the Black teen boys who just gotta love ‘em. Her debut novel, Finding Jupiter, is a contemporary literary romance about a James Taylor and Beyoncé fan and a champion swimmer bonding through shared grief and falling in love one fateful summer. It incorporates journal pages of art and found poetry from the pages of classic novels including The Great Gatsby and Their Eyes Were Watching God. Kelis writes out of her suburban home near Austin, TX.

For more information, please visit Kelis at KelisRowe.com or on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok or Facebook @TheeKelisRowe.

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Finding Jupiter

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12 years after NASA launched its Juno mission to Jupiter, these are its most stunning images of the gas giant

  • NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter and taking jaw-dropping photos since 2016.
  • The most recent images capture Jupiter's cyclones, moons , and atmosphere in stunning detail.
  • The mission  is also helping scientists understand how other gas giants evolve.

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NASA has been flying spacecraft by Jupiter since the '70s. But no spacecraft quite compares to Juno.

Juno is NASA's latest Jupiter mission , and it has shown us a completely new perspective of the giant planet.

Here are some of the most stunning images from the mission so far, and how Juno has changed our understanding of Jupiter .

NASA's Juno mission has been orbiting Jupiter and snapping stunning photos for more than seven years.

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The spacecraft launched more than 10 years ago, on August 5, 2011 and is the ninth NASA spacecraft to explore Jupiter.

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As it sped toward Jupiter, Juno snapped a goodbye photo of Earth, proving its cameras were ready for space.

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Juno finally fell into orbit around the giant gaseous planet in 2016.

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Since launch, the probe has traveled more than 1 billion miles, and its JunoCam instrument has taken hundreds to thousands of photos.

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Juno beams the raw data to Earth as black-and-white photo layers that represent red, blue, and green.

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Then, citizen scientists merge the layers and process them to make stunning, colorful portraits of Jupiter and its moons.

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They enhance the colors to highlight different bands of Jupiter's atmosphere, storms, and clouds.

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This enhanced image shows the complexity of Jupiter’s colors.

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Juno's orbit takes it far from Jupiter, then swings it back toward the planet for close flybys.

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During those flybys, the probe has flown over Jupiter's north pole, where eight storms rage around a giant, Earth-size cyclone at the center.

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The planet's south pole is no less stunning. Juno gave us the first close-up pictures ever taken of Jupiter's poles.

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Juno even captured this eerie image of a “face” in Jupiter’s atmosphere just before Halloween.

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Seen together, the series of photos that Juno snaps during each flyby shows the spacecraft's journey.

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The successive images show Juno zipping from one pole to the other in just a few hours, approaching Jupiter, and then flying away.

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But Juno's mission isn't about pretty pictures. It's looking for clues about how Jupiter formed and how it evolved.

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That history can help scientists study the beginnings of our solar system and identify clues about Jupiter-like gas giants orbiting other stars.

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Juno measured Jupiter's magnetic field for the first time, finding it far more powerful than scientists expected. Jupiter's magnetic field is 10 times more powerful than the strongest field on Earth.

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A year after its arrival, Juno zipped past Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a raging storm near the planet's equator. It discovered that this cyclone goes 200 miles deep — that's 50 to 100 times as deep as Earth's oceans.

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Cyclones spin in the same direction as the planet, but anticyclones spin in the opposite direction. Both are found all over Jupiter in varying sizes.

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Juno has also spotted the aurora ribboning across Jupiter's south pole. They’re like auroras on Earth but hundreds of times more powerful and, unlike other planets' auroras, emit powerful X-rays.

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The spacecraft captured the shadow of Jupiter's icy satellite Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system.

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Gerald Eichstädt, a citizen scientist, compiled Juno's imagery into a time-lapse video of its June flyby, which took the spacecraft past Jupiter and Ganymede.

During its 53rd close flyby of Jupiter, Juno captured the planet with its volcanically active moon, Io, floating in space.

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Jupiter has 95 moons. In this dramatic image, the moon Io casts its shadow on the planet. If you could stand on Jupiter, it would look like a full solar eclipse.

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Juno was originally set for a fiery death in Jupiter's atmosphere in 2021, but NASA extended its mission through September 2025 so it could observe Ganymede, Io, and Europa more closely.

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In the process, Juno is sure to beam back more photos of the largest planet in our solar system and its neighboring worlds.

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Correction: February 21, 2024 — An earlier version of this story included an incorrect reference to the space mission Cassini that has been removed.

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