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Book review by Nishta Krishnan

EVERY SOUL A STAR by Wendy Mass
The book is set at the Moon Shadow Campground in the days surrounding a total solar eclipse. Three narrators tell the story of how their paths come together there, just as the moon's shadow crosses the sun. There's Ally, a self-confident, home-schooled kid who has grown up at the Moon Shadow, spending her time searching for alien signals and arranging rocks in the campground labyrinth. There's Bree, firmly set in the life of a middle school butterfly until her parents say that she's moving to the middle of nowhere so they can work on a research project. And there's Jack, who flunked science class and is sentenced to a summer project at the Moon Shadow with his teacher.
I found Every soul a Star to be inspirational. It gives the reader a chance to really get engrossed into the book and really learn in an interesting way. Mass does a magnificent job of making the voices of her characters distinct. In addition, novels created like this can often be a bit repetitive as events are recurring from the viewpoint of another character, but Mass does not do this. She allows the novel to flow naturally, giving the reader a chance to infer what the other characters might be thinking. If I had one complaint about this novel, it would be that I would have liked to know what happens to Ally, Bree and Jack when the summer ends. In my opinion, I would have liked if Jack and Ally ended up in the same city and school.