{"id":4362,"date":"2019-10-17T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2019-10-10T18:58:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T22:58:48","slug":"blog-tour-naked-mole-rat-saves-the-world-by-karen-rivers-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-naked-mole-rat-saves-the-world-by-karen-rivers-excerpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: Naked Mole Rat Saves the World by Karen Rivers (Excerpt!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-naked-mole-rat-saves-the-world-by-karen-rivers-excerpt\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Naked-Mole-Rat-Banner-1.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: Naked Mole Rat Saves the World by Karen Rivers (Excerpt!)\"><\/a><\/p><p>Happy Thursday and welcome to my stop on the <em>Naked Mole Rat Saves the World<\/em> blog tour!! I\u2019m so excited because today I get to share an excerpt of the book with you! Read on to find the excerpt, plus more about the book and author!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Naked-Mole-Rat-Cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: Naked Mole Rat Saves the World by Karen Rivers (Excerpt!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: Naked Mole Rat Saves the World by Karen Rivers (Excerpt!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>Naked Mole Rat Saves the World<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/karen-rivers\/\">Karen Rivers<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  October 15, 2019 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/algonquin-young-readers\/\">Algonquin Young Readers<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/middle-grade\/\">Middle Grade<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/fantasy\/\">Fantasy<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 304 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43212923-naked-mole-rat-saves-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p><b>Can Kit\u2019s super-weird superpower save her world?<\/b><\/p>\n<p> Kit-with-a-small-k is navigating middle school with a really big, really strange secret: When she\u2019s stressed, she turns into a naked mole rat.<\/p>\n<p> It first happened after kit watched her best friend, Clem, fall and get hurt during an acrobatic performance on TV. Since then, the transformations keep happening\u2014whether kit wants them to or not. Kit can\u2019t tell Clem about it, because after the fall, Clem just hasn\u2019t been herself. She\u2019s sad and mad and gloomy, and keeping a secret of her own: the real reason she fell.<\/p>\n<p> A year after the accident, kit and Clem still haven\u2019t figured out how to deal with all the ways they have transformed\u2014both inside and out. When their secrets come between them, the best friends get into a big fight. Somehow, kit has to save the day, but she doesn\u2019t believe she can be that kind of hero. Turning into a naked mole rat isn\u2019t really a superpower. Or is it?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2019-10-17T10:00:48+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Happy Thursday and welcome to my stop on the Naked Mole Rat Saves the World blog tour!! I\\u2019m so excited because today I get to share an excerpt of the book with you! 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It also spelled kit\u2019s name, which was kit, not Kit, because when kit was a baby, her mom said she was much too small for capital letters. Back then she fit inside her mom\u2019s two hands, a funny wrinkled thing <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that looked not-quite-ready to be alive, more like a hairless baby animal than a human being.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy little naked mole rat,\u201d her mom would say every time she saw the first photo ever taken of kit, which had been stuck on the fridge for most of kit\u2019s life. Then she would put her hand on her heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One day, kit took the picture down and slipped it into a drawer and her mom didn\u2019t say it as much anymore, which was good because it didn\u2019t exactly feel like a compliment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kit\u2019s mom had had the tattoo for years before kit existed at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBecause I knew you were coming,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kit\u2019s mom often told people that she was searching for kit for her whole life and the tattoo was the map that she followed to find her. She said that when she found kit, she was saved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Found <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">made it sound to kit like she was not someone who was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">born<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but instead someone who just appeared, maybe in a box on the doorstep. Even though kit knew this wasn\u2019t true, she sometimes dreamed of scraping her fingernails against cardboard walls, scrabbling to get out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She also thought that being responsible for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">saving <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">her mom was an awful lot of pressure. Not that she\u2019d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ever say anything; she knew her mom loved that story and the way she told it made kit feel things she didn\u2019t usually feel. It made her feel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">heroic <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and kit normally had a pretty hard time imagining that she\u2019d ever be able to save anyone from anything. She was too small to be a hero.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She could still sometimes fit into clothes labeled 6x. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s how small.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe size in your shirt should be the same as your age,\u201d Clem told her once when they were shopping at the Brooklyn Flea, which was the best place in the world to find stuff you didn\u2019t know you needed, and kit had felt worse than if Clem had reached over and punched her right in the nose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clem was also small, but not nearly as small as kit. She was normal-small. Like kit, Clem and her twin brother, Jorge, had been born too early. But unlike kit, the only fallout for them was that Clem had super bad allergies and Jorge had had to wear glasses since the age of two.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Small-<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ish <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">small <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">were two different things. That was the day kit had bought her favorite hoodie, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the black one with the small rainbow star on the front and the bigger rainbow star on the back. The color was as faded as kit\u2019s mom\u2019s tattoo. It had cost $5, which was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the exact amount their moms gave them each to spend. \u201cThat looks . . . comfortable,\u201d Clem observed, but she meant, \u201cThat looks old.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kit didn\u2019t care that Clem didn\u2019t like it. It was big and soft and as soon as she saw it, it looked like it belonged to her. It was already familiar. The fact that it was way too big only meant she wouldn\u2019t grow out of it anytime soon. Clem had spent her $5 on a small glass turtle. \u201cIt\u2019s not a very turtle-y turtle,\u201d she said. \u201cDon\u2019t be such a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">turtle!\u201d she told it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lot of what Clem said didn\u2019t make sense, but it was funny anyway or maybe it was just funny <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">because <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it didn\u2019t make sense. They had both laughed so hard that they had to sit down, right there on the pavement, the crowd parting around them. Clem clutched the non- turtle-y turtle, tears running down their cheeks, while Jorge looked dreamily off into the distance, not quite paying attention to what was so funny. Jorge was like that. There, but not always entirely <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">there<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe has a rich inner life,\u201d Clem said, which made kit picture a whole miniature world existing inside Jorge. \u201cBut his outer life needs work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then she laughed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clem was someone who was almost always laughing, at least back then. At first, kit had been friends with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jorge because she was friends with Jackson and Jackson was friends with Jorge. It had been the three of them. Clem had bugged her, with her always-laughing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">thing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But after not very long, kit started to find the same things funny that Clem did, and soon kit and Clem were the closest friends. Their friendship grew to be the biggest and the best. So even when Jackson and Jorge were busy\u2014Jackson with his sports and Jorge with his \u201crich inner life\u201d\u2014Clem and kit were either together or talking on the phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clem was the most important person in kit\u2019s life, other than her mom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And Clem got it. She understood what kit\u2019s mom was like. She knew what kit\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">life <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was like and that kit had to look out for her mom because her mom had <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">issues<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kit\u2019s mom\u2019s main issue was that she was afraid. She was scared of cancer and bad guys and fire. She was terrified of traffic and heights and crowds. She was afraid of spiders and germs and blood. The list was pretty long and always growing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cK.i.t., keep it together,\u201d kit would say, and her mom would put on her brave smile and hold up her wrist so that kit could see she was trying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes, kit and her mom would go in the bathroom and perform magic over the tub or sink so the oils <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and \u201cpotions\u201d didn\u2019t spill anywhere that couldn\u2019t be easily cleaned up. They had a whole glass shelf of bottles and jars, labeled with things like bravery and truth or rosemary and sage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kit\u2019s mom owned a hair salon. She was a hairdresser, not a witch, but kit thought her only employee (and her best friend), Samara, might be both. If you didn\u2019t know Samara, you\u2019d think she was just a nice, funny person\u2014 she loved riddles\u2014but once you got to know her, you\u2019d find out that she also believed in magic the same way kit did. She believed in spells, believed they could give them courage or love or money or luck, believed in the possibility that herbs and oils and words could really and truly fix any problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mostly it seemed to be <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">luck <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that kit\u2019s mom was conjuring, but kit thought she should specify whether she wanted <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">good <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">luck or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bad<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Everything was either one or the other, if you thought about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And anyway, details mattered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou\u2019re as small as a detail and the details tell the story. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are the best story of all,\u201d kit\u2019s mom liked to say. \u201cI\u2019m not a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">story<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!\u201d kit used to always say back, but now that everything had happened, she wasn\u2019t sure this <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was true anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After all, everybody <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a story, even if the story doesn\u2019t feel like a story when you are the one who is living it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s only afterward, in the telling, that it becomes the thing it was meant to be all along.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider.png 775w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider-300x14.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider-768x35.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/all-about-the-author-002-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/all-about-the-author-002.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/all-about-the-author-002-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/all-about-the-author-002-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4366 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Rivers_Karen_Kelsey_Goodwin-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p>I was born, grew up, and currently live in British Columbia, where I take a lot of photos, walk a lot of paths, and write books for children, teens and adults.<\/p>\n<p>The stories I tell are emotionally honest, but they aren&#8217;t about real people. Fiction has a way of telling the truth though, don&#8217;t you think? I believe that readers are always asking the question, &#8220;Am I OK?&#8221; I write characters who suspect that they are not OK, but who eventually find inside themselves the strength to change that belief.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up is harder than ever. The world is often egregiously unfair. Things can seem impossible. How do we go on? I believe in the power of stories. I think that stories will save us. They can show us the way. Novels are magical. Books can be mirrors or windows. We sometimes need to see ourselves. We always need to understand others. Stories are all secret passages to alternate worlds where we can be safe to explore the unsafe, the unsettling or the unfair hands some people have been dealt.<\/p>\n<p>In the pages of a book, we can be braver than we are, we can go further than we&#8217;d normally dare, we can understand more than we know. Books make us better, period. I believe in magic. Do you? Be brave. Be kind. And believe this: You are OK.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/follow-the-author-001-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/follow-the-author-001.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/follow-the-author-001-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/follow-the-author-001-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.karenrivers.com\/\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/karenrivers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider.png 775w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider-300x14.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider-768x35.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/lets-talk-001-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/lets-talk-001.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/lets-talk-001-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/lets-talk-001-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What do you think about <em>Naked Mole Rat Saves the World<\/em>? Are you adding it to your TBR? Let me know in the comments and have a splendiferous day!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3042 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/well-wishes-kait-june-2019-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/well-wishes-kait-june-2019-002.png 600w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/well-wishes-kait-june-2019-002-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thursday and welcome to my stop on the Naked Mole Rat Saves the World blog tour!! I\u2019m so excited because today I get to share an excerpt of the book with you! 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