Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling - Hardcover

Frank, Lucy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307979741 ISBN 13: 9780307979742

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 2014

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This novel-in-verse—at once literary and emotionally gripping—follows the unfolding friendship between two very different teenage girls who share a hospital room and an illness.

Chess, the narrator, is sick, but with what exactly, she isn’t sure. And to make matters worse, she must share a hospital room with Shannon, her polar opposite. Where Chess is polite, Shannon is rude. Where Chess tolerates pain silently, Shannon screams bloody murder. Where Chess seems to be getting slowly better, Shannon seems to be getting worse. How these teenagers become friends, helping each other come to terms with their illness, makes for a dramatic and deeply moving read.

"An emotional and innovative novel.... There is so much pathos and humor in these two hospital beds." —E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars

"A story told with the utmost economy of language—intense, compelling, and satisfying." —Susan Patron, author of the Newbery Medal winner The Higher Power of Lucky

"Riveting, humanizing and real." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred

"A raw, unsentimental perspective on the fight to keep an illness from overpowering one's identity." —Publishers Weekly

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Lucy Frank won a PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship for her work on Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling. The author of eight novels for young adults and middle graders, she divides her time between New York City and upstate New York. Learn more at lucyfrank.com.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0307979741
• ISBN 13: 9780307979742
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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