Things Mary doesn’t want to fall into: the river, high school, her mother’s life.

Things Mary does kind of want to fall into: love, the sky.

This is the story of a girl who sees a boy float away one fine day. This is the story of the girl who reaches up for that boy with her hand and with her heart. This is the story of a girl who takes on the army to save a town, who goes toe-to-toe with a mad scientist, who has to fight a plague to save her family. This is the story of a girl who would give anything to get to babysit her baby brother one more time. If she could just find him.

It’s all up in the air for now, though, and falling fast. . . .

Fun, breathlessly exciting, and full of heart, Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn’t Fly is an unforgettable ride.

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I did not particularly enjoy this book. I thought the idea of the floating boy was cool, and this book had the chance to be really really good, and it just really fell flat. I didn’t care about any of the characters except the brother, and there was absolutely no explanation of the science behind the floating. It was really frustrating to read, especially when Mary texted. I’m 20 years old, and half the time I had to really think about what the texts were supposed to say.
I wouldn’t recommend this book to just about anybody. The protagonist was boring, her friends were really weird, and the story really just didn’t work.