Contents

Taylor / First Light

Song / Skin Drag

Taylor / Not Air, Not Water

Song / Ls Are the Hardest

Taylor / Out Loud

Song / Newton’s First Law

Taylor / Eight Moving as One

Song / Earth Calling

Taylor / Fresh Water Pond

Song / Flight

Taylor / Small with Him

Song / Balance

Taylor / The Pair

Song / Specimen

Taylor / Birch Bark

Song / Torch

Song / Pressure in Contained Area

Taylor / Close Call

Song / Inert Force

Taylor / Simplified World

Song / Electric Charge

Taylor / Sunflower

Song / Particles in Turbulence

Taylor / White on Black

Song / Phoenix

Taylor / All the Sky Gray

Song / The Mass of the Earth

Taylor / Rokkaku

Song / Study Hall

Taylor / Plato’s Face

Song / Vacuum

Taylor / Contagion

Song / Suction

Taylor / The Switch

Song / Happy

Taylor / Beets

Song / What Makes Good Luck

Taylor / Breakfast

Song / The Science of Loss

Taylor / Sand

Song / Earth on Us

Taylor / Nothing to Say

Carla / Tape #1, Side A

Song / Sneaker Wave

Taylor / The Turbine

Song / Not There

Carla / Tape #1, Side B

Song / Resistance

Carla / Tape #2, Side A

Taylor / Finish Line

Carla / Tape #2, Side B

Song / Angle of Re-entry

Taylor / River, Tide, Ocean

Song / Equal and Opposite

Carla / Tape #2, Side B, Continued

Song / Consequences

Taylor / Kinds of Cold

Song / Boundaries and Bending

Taylor / River

Taylor / 1984

Acknowledgments

About the Author/ About the Illustrator

Author Kate Gray in Conversation with Jeb Sharp, producer of PRI’s “The World”

Reading Group Questions