num_pages: 925
description: Having moved from one academic outpost to another throughout her childhood, Blue van Meer attends the elite St. Gallway School in her senior year, where the deaths of a teacher and student awaken her analytical instincts.
language: English
title: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
titlecomplete: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
characters: Smoke Wyannoch Harvey, Arnie Sanderson, Norvel Owen, Eugenia Sturds, Lonny Felix, Fayonette Harper, Roy Withers, Ms. Gershon, Andreo Verduga, Lee Sanjay Song, Jefferson Whitestone, Blue van Meer, Pa Havermeyer, Victor Moats, Ms. Simpson, Natasha Alicia Bridges van Meer, Wilson Gnut, Alfred Johnson, Howie Valerio, Violet May Martinez, Frank Fletcher
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Young Adult, Literature, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 46590
places: Stockton, North Carolina
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: The Center for Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
publisher: Thorndike Pr