TFK Kid Reporter Dylan Landaw read The Everybody Experiment, a new book by Lisa Moore Ramée. Read Dylan’s thoughts below.
The Everybody Experiment, by Lisa Moore Ramée, is about an 11-year-old girl named Kylie. Kylie has just finished sixth grade. She’s very sensitive. She cries a lot, which makes her worry that she’s not mature enough for seventh grade. She’s also scared that her emotions might embarrass her friends.
Kylie loves science, so she asks herself: “What would a scientist do to solve this problem?” She comes up with the idea for an experiment. She calls it the Everybody Experiment. She decides to act more mature by copying the behavior of her friends Nikila, Mara, and Naomi. Every day, she writes down what happens with her experiment and then analyzes the results. After a while, Kylie realizes she's just as mature as her friends—she just expresses her emotions differently. She gains the confidence to be herself.
This is the author’s fourth published book. “All of my books have the same message that I’m hoping that readers walk away with,” Ramée told me. “How you are, and who you are, is perfectly okay. You might be different from some of your friends, but that is okay. We're all unique, and that’s just fine.”
The Everybody Experiment is a great book that is fun and interesting to read, especially if you love science experiments or have ever felt like you don’t quite fit in.
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