The Thing About Jellyfish National Book Award Finalist

Author : Ali Benjamin
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316380836

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The Thing About Jellyfish (National Book Award Finalist) by Ali Benjamin Pdf

This stunning debut novel about grief and wonder was an instant New York Times bestseller and captured widespread critical acclaim, including selection as a 2015 National Book Award finalist! After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy must have been a rare jellyfish sting--things don't just happen for no reason. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory--even if it means traveling the globe, alone. Suzy's achingly heartfelt journey explores life, death, the astonishing wonder of the universe...and the potential for love and hope right next door. Oddlot Entertainment has acquired the screen rights to The Thing About Jellyfish, with Gigi Pritzker set to produce with Bruna Papandrea and Reese Witherspoon.

Author : Ali Benjamin
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316380836

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The Thing About Jellyfish (National Book Award Finalist) by Ali Benjamin Pdf

This stunning debut novel about grief and wonder was an instant New York Times bestseller and captured widespread critical acclaim, including selection as a 2015 National Book Award finalist! After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy must have been a rare jellyfish sting--things don't just happen for no reason. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory--even if it means traveling the globe, alone. Suzy's achingly heartfelt journey explores life, death, the astonishing wonder of the universe...and the potential for love and hope right next door. Oddlot Entertainment has acquired the screen rights to The Thing About Jellyfish, with Gigi Pritzker set to produce with Bruna Papandrea and Reese Witherspoon.

Author : Ali Benjamin
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316266475

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The Thing About Jellyfish - FREE PREVIEW EDITION (The First 11 Chapters) by Ali Benjamin Pdf

This stunning debut novel about grief and wonder was an instant New York Times bestseller and captured widespread critical acclaim, including selection as a 2015 National Book Award finalist! After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy must have been a rare jellyfish sting--things don't just happen for no reason. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory--even if it means traveling the globe, alone. Suzy's achingly heartfelt journey explores life, death, the astonishing wonder of the universe...and the potential for love and hope right next door. Oddlot Entertainment has acquired the screen rights to The Thing About Jellyfish, with Gigi Pritzker set to produce with Bruna Papandrea and Reese Witherspoon.

Author : Ali Benjamin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593229668

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The Smash-Up by Ali Benjamin Pdf

Smart, sublime, and wickedly clever, The Smash-Up captures—then transcends—our current polarized moment “An exhilarating ride . . . hilarious . . . a modern and energetic story about a marriage on the skids.”—The New York Times Ethan has always been one of the good guys, and for years, nobody has appreciated this fact more than his wife, Zo. Until now. Jolted into activism by the 2016 election, Zo’s transformed their home into the headquarters for the local resistance, turning their comfortable decades-long marriage inside-out. Meanwhile, their boisterous daughter, Alex, grows wilder by the day. Ethan’s former business partner needs help saving the media company they’d co-founded. Financial disaster looms. Enter a breezy, blue-haired millennial making her way through the gig economy. Suddenly Ethan faces a choice unlike any he’s ever had to make. Unfolding over fivet urbulent days in 2018, The Smash-Up wrestles shrewdly with some of the biggest questions of our time: What, exactly, does it mean to be a good guy? What will it take for men to break the “bro code”? How does the world respond when a woman demands more? Can we ever understand another's experiences… and what are the consequences of failing to try? Moving, funny, and cathartic, this portrait of a marriage—and a nation—under strain is, ultimately, a magic trick of empathy, one that will make you laugh and squirm until its final, breathless pages.

Author : Ali Benjamin
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316380898

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The Next Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin Pdf

In this acclaimed novel by the author of the award-winning, bestselling The Thing About Jellyfish, being the new kid at school isn't easy, especially when you have to follow in the footsteps of a legendary classroom prankster. When Caitlyn Breen begins her disorienting new life at Mitchell School--where the students take care of real live goats and study long-dead philosophers, and where there are only ten other students in the entire seventh grade--it seems like nobody can stop talking about some kid named Paulie Fink. Depending on whom you ask, Paulie was either a hilarious class clown, a relentless troublemaker, a hapless klutz, or an evil genius. One thing's for sure, though: The kid was totally legendary. Now he's disappeared, and Caitlyn finds herself leading a reality-show-style competition to find the school's next great Paulie Fink. With each challenge, Caitlyn struggles to understand a person she never met...but it's what she discovers about herself that most surprises her. Told in multiple voices, interviews, and documents,this funny, thought-provoking novel from the bestselling author of The Thing About Jellyfish is a memorable exploration of what makes a hero--and if anyone, or anything, is truly what it seems.

Author : Beth Bader,Alison Wade Benjamin
Publisher : Storey Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781603425858

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The Cleaner Plate Club by Beth Bader,Alison Wade Benjamin Pdf

Offers recipes, meal suggestions and tips to help parents get kids to eat and enjoy healthy food that's been grown locally or organically. Original.

Author : Ali Benjamin
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316266475

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The Thing About Jellyfish - FREE PREVIEW EDITION (The First 11 Chapters) by Ali Benjamin Pdf

This stunning debut novel about grief and wonder was an instant New York Times bestseller and captured widespread critical acclaim, including selection as a 2015 National Book Award finalist! After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy must have been a rare jellyfish sting--things don't just happen for no reason. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory--even if it means traveling the globe, alone. Suzy's achingly heartfelt journey explores life, death, the astonishing wonder of the universe...and the potential for love and hope right next door. Oddlot Entertainment has acquired the screen rights to The Thing About Jellyfish, with Gigi Pritzker set to produce with Bruna Papandrea and Reese Witherspoon.

Author : Holly Goldberg Sloan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101591352

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Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan Pdf

In the tradition of Out of My Mind, Wonder, and Mockingbird, this is an intensely moving middle grade novel about being an outsider, coping with loss, and discovering the true meaning of family. Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn’t kept her from leading a quietly happy life . . . until now. Suddenly Willow’s world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The triumph of this book is that it is not a tragedy. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief. Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read. “Holly Goldberg Sloan writes about belonging in a way I’ve never quite seen in any other book. This is a gorgeous, funny, and heartwarming novel that I’ll never forget.”—John Corey Whaley, author of Where Things Come Back "Willow Chance subtly drew me into her head and her life, so much so that I was holding my breath for her by the end. Holly Goldberg Sloan has created distinct characters who will stay with you long after you finish the book."—Sharon Creech, Newbery Award-winning author of Walk Two Moons "In achingly beautiful prose, Holly Goldberg Sloan has written a delightful tale of transformation that’s a celebration of life in all its wondrous, hilarious and confounding glory. Counting by 7s is a triumph."—Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Author : Reading Group Choices
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0975974475

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Reading Group Choices by Reading Group Choices Pdf

Author : Tess Gunty
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593467879

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The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about • "Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny."—The Guardian A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME, NPR, Oprah Daily, People Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents — neighbors, separated only by the thin walls of a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial center of Vacca Vale, Indiana. Welcome to the Rabbit Hutch. Ethereally beautiful and formidably intelligent, Blandine shares her apartment with three teenage boys she neither likes nor understands, all, like her, now aged out of the state foster care system that has repeatedly failed them, all searching for meaning in their lives. Set over one sweltering week in July and culminating in a bizarre act of violence that finally changes everything, The Rabbit Hutch is a savagely beautiful and bitingly funny snapshot of contemporary America, a gorgeous and provocative tale of loneliness and longing, entrapment and, ultimately, freedom. "Gunty writes with a keen, sensitive eye about all manner of intimacies―the kind we build with other people, and the kind we cultivate around ourselves and our tenuous, private aspirations."—Raven Leilani, author of Luster

Author : Ann Dee Ellis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101993873

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You May Already Be a Winner by Ann Dee Ellis Pdf

For fans of Ali Benjamin’s The Thing About Jellyfish and Katherine Applegate’s Crenshaw comes the humorous and heart aching story of one girl’s struggle to keep hope alive for her and her younger sister in Sunny Pines Trailer Park. Twelve-year-old Olivia Hales has a foolproof plan for winning a million dollars so that she and her little sister, Berkeley, can leave behind Sunny Pines Trailer Park. But first she has to: · Fix the swamp cooler and make dinner and put Berkeley to bed because her mom is too busy to do all that · Write another letter to her dad even though he hasn’t written back yet · Teach Berk the important stuff, like how to make chalk drawings, because they can’t afford day care and Olivia has to stay home from school to watch her · Petition her oddball neighbors for a circus spectacular, because there needs to be something to look forward to at dumb-bum Sunny Pines · Become a super-secret spy to impress her new friend Bart · Enter a minimum of fourteen sweepstakes a day. Who knows? She may already be a winner! Olivia has thought of everything . . . except herself. Who will take care of her when she needs it? Luckily, somewhere deep down between her small intestine and stomach is a tiny voice reminding her that sometimes people can surprise you—and sometimes your family is right next door.

Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780008134662

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Flamingo Boy by Michael Morpurgo Pdf

A stunning new classic from master storyteller Michael Morpurgo for readers of 9+, in the vein of PRIVATE PEACEFUL and THE BUTTERFLY LION

Author : Twig C. George
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0613910192

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Jellies by Twig C. George Pdf

Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of many species of jellyfish, through simple text and photographs.

Author : Rick Horne
Publisher : Shepherd Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0981540074

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Get Outta My Face! by Rick Horne Pdf

Here's a fact: Angry, unmotivated, and disinterested teens, whether Christian or not, are confused, insecure, and often blind to everything except what they want right now. Their desires and actions have been corrupted and polluted by sin.That's why they have a problem. Here's another fact: Angry, unmotivated, and disinterested teens, whether Christian or not, are made in the image of God. This means that beneath their corrupted desires and actions the image of God remains. That's the key to solving their problem. Far from dismissing or sugar-coating sin, this approach opens wide the door to evangelizing the unsaved teen and to helping the Christian teen grow in holiness and wisdom. This book will teach you how to build a bridge to young adults on the basis of the ways in which their desires and actions reflect the image of God and the blessing of common grace.

Author : Patrick Ness
Publisher : Thorndike Striving Reader
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1432875833

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A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness Pdf

Large Print�s increased font size and wider line spacing maximizes reading legibility, and has been proven to advance comprehension, improve fluency, reduce eye fatigue, and boost engagement in young readers of all abilities, especially struggling, reluctant, and striving readers.