" Charles Darwin, whose almost compulsive collecting and list making are akin to Zoomy's, enters the plot again when Zoomy and Lorrol try to see clearly what's inside the mysterious package that was given to Zoomy by his normally absent father. Fascinating, powerful, and possibly explosive. Lorrol moves so fast that, before he knows her name, Zoomy calls her "Firecracker Girl." "She's like a rare beetle, the kind with iridescent colors and pincers. Lorrol, 13, is spending time in the public library because her mother is serving as a camp nurse nearby. "I sometimes still think trees are like the stitches in one of my grandma's old quilts, and that they hold the Deeps together." Zoomy has also learned from his grandmother to make lists to steady himself in his "jittery-splat" moments. He uses the term "Deep" for blurry spaces he knows are more than he can see. Since then, he has learned truly perceptive ways of seeing the world beyond his focus point. He himself was once a puzzling delivery on his grandparents' kitchen steps.
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