meet kate malonestraighta science and math geek ministers daughter ace longdistance runner new girlfriend to mitchell early decision harvard pangborn iii unwilling family caretaker and emotional avoidance champion kate manages her life by organizing it as logically as the periodic table she can handle it allor so she thinks then things change as suddenly as a string of chemical reactions first the malones neighbors get burned out of their own home and move in kate has to share her room with her nemesis teri litch and teris little brother the days are ticking down and shes still waiting to hear from the only college she applied to mit kate feels that her life is spinning out of her controland then something happens that truly blows it all apart set in the same community as the remarkable speak catalyst is a novel that will change the way you look at the world