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Publisher's Summary
Darker than her previous novels, Susin peoples this novel about the ultimate cost of bullying with a cast of fabulous characters, dark humour, and a lovable, difficult protagonist struggling to come to terms with the horrible crime his brother has committed.
WINNER - Governor General's Award - Children's Literature (2012)
FINALIST - BC Book Prizes’ Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
Critic Reviews
"...with fully developed adult and child characters and a solid sense of middle school humor, the author has crafted an insightful and nuanced novel about bullying and suicide, and familial love and resilience." (School Library Journal)
"...a highly emotional story about a family that blames one another, and themselves, for an unimaginable tragedy. Nielsen’s balance of humor and pathos is finely honed, making this a surprisingly breezy read for so heavy a topic." (Booklist)
"...a realistic, poignant portrait of one teen who overcomes nearly unbearable feelings of grief and guilt." (Kirkus Reviews)
"Nielsen treats a heavy subject with a light, optimistic touch, and while Henry’s passion and distress are evident, his wacky commitment to ‘Saturday Night Smash-up’ and his own ironic, yet earnest, perspective leavens the serious subject matter." (The Toronto Star)
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Thirteen-year-old Stewart is academically brilliant but socially clueless. Fourteen-year-old Ashley is the undisputed "it" girl in her class, but her grades stink. Their worlds are about to collide when Stewart and his dad move in with Ashley and her mom. Stewart is trying to be 89.9 percent happy about it, but Ashley is 110 percent horrified. She already has to hide the real reason her dad moved out; "Spewart" could further threaten her position at the top of the social ladder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beatiful and witty
- By Family on 07-09-20
By: Susin Nielsen
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No Fixed Address
- By: Susin Nielsen
- Narrated by: Nissae Isen
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Felix Knuttson, 12, is an endearing kid with an incredible brain for trivia. His mom Astrid is loving but unreliable; she can't hold onto a job, or a home. When they lose their apartment in Vancouver, they move into a camper van, just for August, till Astrid finds a job. September comes, they're still in the van; Felix must keep "home" a secret and give a fake address in order to enroll in school. Luckily, he finds true friends. As the weeks pass and life becomes grim, he struggles not to let anyone know how precarious his situation is.
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3 out of 5 stars
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For an older teen and up
- By eastnashmom on 08-24-20
By: Susin Nielsen
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When You Reach Me
- By: Rebecca Stead
- Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 926
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 726
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 727
By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid, like the crazy guy on the corner.
But things start to unravel. Sal gets punched by a new kid for what seems like no reason, and he shuts Miranda out of his life. The apartment key that Miranda's mom keeps hidden for emergencies is stolen. And then Miranda finds a mysterious note.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent intrigue story
- By Brianna on 12-26-09
By: Rebecca Stead
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Goodbye Stranger
- By: Rebecca Stead
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Meera Simhan, Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108
Bridge is an accident survivor who's wondering why she's still alive. Emily has new curves and an almost-boyfriend who wants a certain kind of picture. Tabitha sees through everybody's games - or so she tells the world. The three girls are best friends with one rule: no fighting. Can it get them through seventh grade?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome!
- By Noreen on 12-07-15
By: Rebecca Stead
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Guys Read: Funny Business
- By: Jon Scieszka, Adam Rex, Christopher Curtis, and others
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman, Kate DiCamillo, John Keating, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 115
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 84
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Story4 out of 5 stars 83
Funny Business is based around the theme of - what else? - humor, and if you’re familiar with Jon and the Guys Read Library, you already know what you’re in store for: 10 hilarious stories from some of the funniest writers around. Before you’re through, you’ll meet a teenage mummy; a kid desperate to take a dip in the world’s largest pool of chocolate milk; a homicidal turkey; parents who hand over their son’s room to a biker; and more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome super funny
- By sacha on 10-03-16
By: Jon Scieszka, and others
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The Last Time We Say Goodbye
- By: Cynthia Hand
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 505
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 455
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 458
The last time Lex was happy, it was before. When she had a family that was whole. A boyfriend she loved. Friends who didn't look at her like she might break down at any moment. Now she's just the girl whose brother killed himself. And it feels like that's all she'll ever be. As Lex starts to put her life back together, she tries to block out what happened the night Tyler died. But there's a secret she hasn't told anyone--a text Tyler sent that could have changed everything.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such sweet sorrow
- By Lesaly on 04-26-15
By: Cynthia Hand
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Eleanor & Park
- By: Rainbow Rowell
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,018
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,284
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,305
Bono met his wife in high school, Park says. So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers. I’m not kidding, he says. You should be, she says, we’re 16. What about Romeo and Juliet? Shallow, confused, then dead. I love you, Park says. Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers. I’m not kidding, he says. You should be. Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits - smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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E + P 4-ever!
- By FanB14 on 04-27-14
By: Rainbow Rowell
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Well, That Was Awkward
- By: Rachel Vail
- Narrated by: Simone Policano
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Gracie has never felt like this before. One day, she suddenly can't breathe, can't walk, can't anything - and the reason is standing right there in front of her, all tall and weirdly good-looking: A. J. But it turns out A. J. likes not Gracie but Gracie's beautiful best friend, Sienna. Obviously Gracie is happy for Sienna. Super happy! She helps Sienna compose the best texts, responding to A. J.'s surprisingly funny and appealing texts, just as if she were Sienna. Because Gracie is fine. Always! She's had lots of practice being the sidekick, second best.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book - a 13/14 would def love
- By Anonymous User on 05-20-23
By: Rachel Vail
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Paper Things
- By: Jennifer Richard Jacobson
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 81
When Ari's mother died four years ago, she had two final wishes: that Ari and her older brother, Gage, would stay together always, and that Ari would go to Carter, the middle school for gifted students. So when eighteen-year-old Gage decided he could no longer live with their bossy guardian, Janna, Ari knew she had to go with him - even though she'd miss baking cookies with Janna and curling up to watch HGTV. What Ari didn't realize was that Gage didn't have an apartment yet.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It's all right…
- By Bill on 04-25-16
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Big Girl Small
- By: Rachel DeWoskin
- Narrated by: Tai Sammons
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 112
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Story4 out of 5 stars 98
Judy Lohden is your above-average 16-year-old: sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, she should be the star of Darcy Arts Academy, the local performing-arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town?
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1 out of 5 stars
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boring
- By Anonymous User on 02-20-21
By: Rachel DeWoskin
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Trouble Is a Friend of Mine
- By: Stephanie Tromly
- Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 117
When Philip Digby first shows up on her doorstep, Zoe Webster is not impressed. He's rude and he treats her like a book he's already read and knows the ending to. But before she knows it, Digby - annoying, brilliant, and somehow...attractive? Digby - has dragged her into a series of hilarious and dangerous situations all related to an investigation into the kidnapping of a local teenage girl. A kidnapping that may be connected to the tragic disappearance of his own sister eight years ago.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good story, author needs better dialogue words
- By Phoenix on 06-07-18
By: Stephanie Tromly
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Ms. Bixby's Last Day
- By: John David Anderson
- Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein, Ramon de Ocampo, Maxwell Glick
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 253
Everyone knows there are different kinds of teachers. The boring ones, the mean ones, the ones who try too hard, the ones who stopped trying long ago. The ones you'll never remember and the ones you want to forget. Ms. Bixby is none of these. She's the sort of teacher who makes you feel like school is somehow worthwhile. Who recognizes something in you that sometimes you don't even see in yourself. Who you never want to disappoint. What Ms. Bixby is is one of a kind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Road Trip
- By Selkirk Coaching and Training Group on 03-06-17
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The Last Boy and Girl in the World
- By: Siobhan Vivian
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 282
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Story4 out of 5 stars 245
What if your town was sliding underwater, and everyone was ordered to pack up and leave? How would you and your friends spend your last days together? While the adults plan for the future, box up their possessions, and find new places to live, Keeley Hewitt and her friends decide to go out with a bang.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator ruin this book for me
- By Sylvia on 12-17-20
By: Siobhan Vivian
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The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things (15th Anniversary Edition)
- By: Carolyn Mackler
- Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Carolyn Mackler's Printz Honor book - starring the unforgettably funny, body-conscious Virginia Shreves - returns in this 15th anniversary edition featuring text updates and never-before-heard material from the author. Fifteen-year-old Virginia feels like a plus-sized black sheep in her family, especially next to her perfect big brother Byron. Not to mention her best friend has moved, leaving Virginia to navigate an awkward relationship with a boy alone. In order to survive, Virginia decides to follow a "Fat Girl Code of Conduct", which works, until the unthinkable causes her family's facade to crumble.
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5 out of 5 stars
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LOVE this
- By carrie sanabria on 11-26-18
By: Carolyn Mackler
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Elvis and the Underdogs
- By: Jenny Lee
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Concerned for Benji's health, the doctor offers him two options: wear the world's ugliest padded helmet or get a therapy dog. Benji chooses the dog, of course. But when a massive crate arrives at Benji's house, out walks a two hundred-pound Newfoundland. And that isn't even the strangest thing about the dog. He announces that his name is Parker Elvis Pembroke IV. That's right, this dog can talk!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book for the family to read together
- By Teresa Rappmundt on 12-06-21
By: Jenny Lee
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Cracked
- By: K. M. Walton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Tecosky, Andrew Wilson
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Victor hates his life. He has no friends, gets beaten up at school, and his parents are always criticizing him. Tired of feeling miserable, Victor takes a bottle of his mother’s sleeping pills - only to wake up in the hospital. Bull is angry, and takes all of his rage out on Victor. That makes him feel better, at least a little. But it doesn’t stop Bull’s grandfather from getting drunk and hitting him. So Bull tries to defend himself with a loaded gun. When Victor and Bull end up as roommates in the same psych ward, there’s no way to escape each other or their problems. Which means things are going to get worse - much worse - before they get better.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting
- By Mitra Grondin on 06-07-15
By: K. M. Walton
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The Benefits of Being an Octopus
- By: Ann Braden
- Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 172
Seventh-grader Zoey has her hands full as she takes care of her much younger siblings after school every day while her mom works her shift at the pizza parlor. Not that her mom seems to appreciate it. At least there's Lenny, her mom's boyfriend - they all get to live in his nice, clean trailer. At school, Zoey tries to stay under the radar. Her only friend, Fuchsia, has her own issues, and since they're in an entirely different world than the rich kids, it's best if no one notices them. Zoey thinks how much easier everything would be if she were an octopus.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Touching and Eye-opening
- By Leah Picanco on 01-06-20
By: Ann Braden
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Better Nate Than Ever
- By: Tim Federle
- Narrated by: Tim Federle
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Nate Foster has big dreams. His whole life, he’s wanted to star in a Broadway show. (Heck, he’d settle for seeing a Broadway show.) But how is Nate supposed to make his dreams come true when he’s stuck in Jankburg, Pennsylvania, where no one (except his best pal Libby) appreciates a good show tune? With Libby’s help, Nate plans a daring overnight escape to New York.
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5 out of 5 stars
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BEST BOOK EVER!!!
- By JL SG Hilbish on 03-16-23
By: Tim Federle