![]() ![]() The posters begin appearing everywhere, and people wonder who is behind them and start to panic. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us. ![]() The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. ![]() Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge-aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner-is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother’s house and who is as awkward as Frankie is. An exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Maybe it depends on how you define “distinguished.” By my lights, the ALA citation implies: “a book that will seem as great decades from now.” And I’m not convinced that When You Reach Me passes that test, or that Rebecca Stead will hold her own against Newbery winners like Russell Freedman ( Lincoln: A Photobiography) and Katherine Paterson ( Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob I Have Loved). But is it the year’s “most distinguished contribution” to children’s literature? When You Reach Me won the American Library Association’s latest John Newbery Medal, and it’s certainly an enjoyable and well-written book. ![]() By Rebecca Stead, 197 pp., Wendy Lamb/Random House, $15.99. A 12-year-old girl tries to figure out who’s sending her mysterious notes in a novel that pays homage to Madeleine L’Engle ![]() ![]() ![]() But as their suicide pact becomes more concrete, Aysel begins to question whether she really wants to go through with it. But once she discovers a website with a section called Suicide Partners, Aysel's convinced she's found her solution - a teen boy with the username FrozenRobot (aka Roman), who's haunted by a family tragedy, is looking for a partner.Įven though Aysel and Roman have nothing in common, they slowly start to fill in each other's broken lives. ![]() There's only one problem: she's not sure she has the courage to do it alone. With a mother who can barely look at her without wincing, classmates who whisper behind her back, and a father whose violent crime rocked her small town, Aysel is ready to turn her potential energy into nothingness. Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. ![]() |