All We Know of Love
by Nora Raleigh Baskin

    ALL WE KNOW OF LOVE by Nora Raleigh Baskin
    Category:  Contemporary
    Age Recommendation:  Grades 9+
    Release Date:  8/26/08
    Publisher:  Candlewick
    Reviewed by:  Rebecca Wells
    Rating:  5 Stars


    Natalie Gordon is on a mission. Her mother walked out in mid-sentence four years ago, never to be seen again,
    and now Natalie is on a journey to find her.

    She wants to know everything: why she is the way that she is, what her mother was saying about love just before
    she walked out the door, and, most importantly, why her mother left.

    While on a twenty-four hour bus ride to Florida, she may just find some of the answers in the people she meets
    along the way, people just like her, people caught up in the ideas of wanting, of longing, and of what love truly
    means.

    ALL WE KNOW OF LOVE is a poignant study of the depths and shades of love, and what love means to each
    different person. The format of the book works well to convey this sense of the universal nature of love by placing
    its narrator at the center of many unfolding stories. Natalie is a pensive narrator whose musings move readers to
    consider their own inferiorities, and as her life touches those of characters around her, we are treated to brief
    glimpses into others’ life experiences.

    In ALL WE KNOW OF LOVE, Nora Raleigh Baskin gives the reader a study in the nuances of love, and leaves
    her audience with a greater perspective and appreciation for the commonalities within us all.