Quintessence is an extraordinary story from Jess Redman about friendship, self-discovery, interconnectedness, and the inexplicable elements that make you you.
Find the Elements. Grow the Light. Save the Starling.
Three months ago, twelve-year-old Alma moved to the town of Four Points. Her panic attacks started a week later, and they haven-t stopped-even though she-s told her parents that they have. She-s homesick and friendless and every day she feels less and less like herself.
But one day she finds a telescope in the town-s junk shop, and through its lens, she watches a star-a star that looks like a child-fall from the sky and into her backyard. Alma knows what it-s like to be lost and afraid, to long for home, and she knows that it-s up to her to save the star. And so, with the help of some unlikely new friends from Astronomy Club, she sets out on a quest that will take a little bit of science, a little bit of magic, and her whole
