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Seventeen-year-old Hannah Ashton is poised, disciplined, and focused.  Because her audition is approaching for the Corps De Ballet with the South Texas City Ballet Company, Hannah is relentless in her practice sessions. With its structure and predictable patterns, dancing keeps her panic under control.  To review her choreography when she can’t actually perform the steps, Hannah uses her hands as proxies for her feet. While engaged in this silent performance, Hannah’s best friend for twelve years, Astrid describes Hannah’s hands as looking like they are performing some kind of “badass sign language.” The only other pastime that consumes Hannah and can make her forget life’sRead More →

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Twelve-year-old Hope Toriella is good at impossible things but not good at inventing, and inventing is something the community of White Rock values to move the community forward, provide comforts, and raise their quality of life.  Hope wishes she could measure up and make her parents and community proud—maybe even earn a place on the Difference of One stone. White Rock is a small community, both guarded and threatened by the Bomb’s Breath, an invisible oxygen-rich air mass capable of suffocating the unsuspecting.  It is this side effect of World War III that intrigues Hope and her fellow Sky Jumpers, Aaren and Brock.  “When theRead More →