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Smiles to Go

by Jerry Spinelli

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When certainty starts to unravel

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When certainty starts to unravel

Will Tuppence has built his ninth-grade life around plans: time with Mi-Su, Saturday Monopoly games, and a detailed vision of adulthood as an astronomer. Learning that protons can die unsettles the certainty behind that carefully ordered future, turning a scientific fact into a personal question about change and control. Set amid friendships, a crush, and Will’s growing awareness that even foundational assumptions can shift, the novel frames adolescence as a period when long-held plans must make room for uncertainty.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Middle-grade readers interested in coming-of-age fiction
  • Readers who enjoy stories connecting science and personal questions
  • Readers interested in friendship, crushes, and changing plans

Themes

AdolescenceUncertaintyControl and planningScience and astronomyFriendship

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Book overview

Ninth grader Will Tuppence is in control.
He plans everything obsessively, from the perfect stargazing night with his crush, Mi-Su, to the regular Saturday-night games of Monopoly with his friends. He's even planned his entire adulthood: career as an astronomer; mint condition, black 1985 Jaguar XJS/12; two kids. . . .
But everything changes the day Will learns one startling fact: protons—those tiny atomic particles, the building blocks to the building blocks of life—can die. The one thing that was so certain in this world to Will has an expiration date.
And Will's carefully planned-out life?
Not so certain, either.
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