This debut novel is a marvelous masterpiece and a love letter to math. There is a lot to love about Lucy Callahan. We love that a lightning strike (she would surely be able to tell you the remote probability of that), left Lucy with brain damage that makes her a genius at math. We love that her surviving being hit by lightning and her acquired savant syndrome are not what make her strange when she enters middle school for the first time. Lucy has OCD and her ticks and habits that happen in threes can look odd to others. We also love that she doesn't like animals, because they are full of germs, but falls for one tragic pup with all her heart and soul. Lucy isn't like other middle school students, but in many ways, she is like every 12 year old.
Five stars to Stacy McAnulty and THE MISCALCULATIONS OF LIGHTNING GIRL.
