LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Zoella Book Club title Summer 16 | Shortlisted for the UKLA 2016 Book Award in the 12 - 16 year old category. Longlisted for the 2015 Guardian Children's Book prize Fans of John Green will love this heart-wrenching teenage novel. School students Violet and Theodore Finch first meet on the ledge at the top of the school bell-tower. Of course, it is out of bounds and neither should be there but, for different reasons and in different ways, both are struggling to believe that their lives are worth living. Together, they have something worthwhile to share and maybe, through that sharing, they can save each other – and themselves? Jennifer Niven convincingly captures their despair and their hope and the importance of friendship.
All the Bright Places was the biggest selling YA novel of 2015.
Jennifer Niven says “Years ago, I knew and loved a boy. The experience was life-changing. I’d always wanted to write about it—I just wasn’t convinced I would ever be able to. ‘All the Bright Places’ was written about a very hard, sad, lovely time during a very hard, sad, stressful time - and now here it is in your hands. (I am still pinching myself that it even exists.) Thank you, reader. To me, you are the brightest of places.”
Julia Eccleshare M.B.E
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All the Bright Places Synopsis
NOW A NETFLIX FILM, STARRING ELLE FANNING AND JUSTICE SMITH!
The New York Times bestselling love story about two teens who find each other while standing on the edge.
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death. Every day he thinks of ways he might kill himself, but every day he also searches for-and manages to find-something to keep him here, and alive, and awake.
Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her small Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death.
When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school-six stories above the ground- it's unclear who saves whom. Soon it's only with Violet that Finch can be himself. And it's only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink. . . .
"A do-not-miss for fans of Eleanor & Park and The Fault in Our Stars, and basically anyone who can breathe." -Justine Magazine
"At the heart-a big one-of All the Bright Places lies a charming love story about this unlikely and endearing pair of broken teenagers." -The New York Times Book Review
"A heart-rending, stylish love story." -The Wall Street Journal
"A complex love story that will bring all the feels." -Seventeen Magazine
"Impressively layered, lived-in, and real." -Buzzfeed
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9780385755887 |
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6th January 2015 |
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Jennifer Niven |
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Knopf Books for Young Readers an imprint of Random House Children's Books |
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Hardback |
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388 pages |
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Press Reviews
Jennifer Niven Press Reviews
“It’s beautiful, heartbreaking and as exhilarating as it is sad. Expect huge things.” - The Bookseller
“The YA bar just got raised a country mile” – Phil Earle, award-winning author
“One of the best books that I have read in a long time” – Olivia, teen reviewer
“One of the most remarkable books I’ve read” – Annie Everall, Authors Aloud
“A beautiful and powerful book” – Jo, School Librarian
“Not just a typical love story” – Rhiannon, teen reviewer
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About Jennifer Niven
Jennifer Niven is the author of two narrative non-fiction books, The Ice Master and Ada Blackjack; a high school memoir, The Aqua Net Diaries; and four historical novels for adults: Velva Jean Learns to Drive (based on her Emmy Award-winning film of the same name), Velva Jean Learns to Fly, Becoming Clementine, and the forthcoming American Blonde. Jennifer lives in Los Angeles and you can learn more about her at www.jenniferniven.com. All the Bright Places is her first book for young adults.
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