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Book Review: The Galaxy According to CeCe

September 15, 2025 Post a comment

2024 NAIWE Middle Grade Winner

 

Author: Sherry Roberts

Starting middle school and facing the unknowns that it presents can be difficult for many, but CeCe was excited to share this experience with her friends. However, shortly before the school year was to begin, CeCe discovers that her family will be moving.

Devastated and defiant, CeCe is forced to quickly pack and say good-bye to the life that she had known to then be shoved into a car and travel across the country. She feels like she has lost control of everything.

Author Shelley Roberts writes this book in the first person and in the present tense, which is no easy feat. Many books written in the first person lack the depth that the reader desires. However, in this book, the author’s skillfulness in using the first person enables the reader to be one with CeCe and share in her thoughts and understand her challenges. All of the words in this book are straight from the mouth or thoughts of CeCe. Excellent job!

This is a useful and relevant book to help children cope with life through the many changes they are forced to face, especially when they feel they have no control over what’s important in their lives.

Congratulations, Shelly Roberts’s The Galaxy According to CeCe for being a NAIWE 2024 Book Award winner!

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