Jesse Andrews
Author
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ATL: Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero
ATL: Banned Books Week 2023
ATL: Banned Books Week 2024
WML Banned Books Week 2024
ATL: Banned Books Week 2023
ATL: Banned Books Week 2024
WML Banned Books Week 2024
Description
Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time making movies, their own incomprehensible versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Until Greg's mother forces him to rekindle his childhood friendship with Rachel. Rachel has been diagnosed with leukemia -- cue extreme adolescent awkwardness -- but a parental mandate has...
2) The Haters
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
A road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band.
3) Munmun
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
In a society where a person's size is directly proportional to his or her wealth, littlepoor Warner, thirteen, and Prayer, fifteen, struggle to improve their lot in a world built against them.
Pub. Date
2015
Description
A uniquely funny and moving story about Greg, a high school senior who avoids deep human relationships as a way to safely navigate the social mine field that is teenage life. In fact, he describes his best friend Earl, with whom he makes short-film parodies of classic movies, as being 'more like a co-worker'. But when Greg's mom insists he spends time with Rachel, a girl in his class who has just been diagnosed with cancer, Greg discovers just how...
6) Every day
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
The story of Rhiannon, a sixteen-year old girl who falls in love with a mysterious soul named "A," who inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and A work each day to find each other, not knowing what or who the next day will bring. The more the two fall in love, the more the realities of loving someone who is a different person every 24 hours takes a toll, leaving Rhiannon and A to face the hardest decision either...
7) Luca
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Set in a seaside town on the Italian Riviera, a young boy experiences an unforgettable summer. Luca shares his amazing adventures with his newfound friend Alberto, but their fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: they're sea monsters from another world just below the water's surface.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A uniquely funny and moving story about Greg, a high school senior who avoids deep human relationships as a way to safely navigate the social mine field that is teenage life. In fact, he describes his best friend Earl, with whom he makes short-film parodies of classic movies, as being "more like a co-worker". But when Greg's mom insists he spends time with Rachel, a girl in his class who has just been diagnosed with cancer, Greg discovers just how...
