Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything is a witty and heart-wrenching teen novel that will appeal to fans of books by John Green and Ned Vizzini, novels such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and classics like The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye. Varsity tennis captain Ezra Faulkner was supposed to be homecoming king, but that was before--before his girlfriend cheated on him, before a car accident shattered his leg, and before he fell in love with unpredictable new girl Cassidy Thorpe. As Kirkus said in a starred review, Schneider takes familiar stereotypes and infuses them with plenty of depth. Here are teens who could easily trade barbs and double entendres with the characters that fill John Green's novels. Funny, smart, and including everything from flash mobs to blanket forts to a poodle who just might be the reincarnation of Jay Gatsby, The Beginning of Everything is a refreshing contemporary twist on the classic coming-of-age novel--a heart-wrenching sto...
When Ruth, Helma Zukas' artist friend, suffers from a broken heart and decides to paint a retrospective of her ample love life she stirs up worries in Bellehaven about exactly what she'll expose. Mysteriously, two of her paintings are stolen from her studio, each depicting a man who died under mysterious circumstances. One is of a chainsaw artist who fell from a tree, chainsaw in hand (ouch). The other a science instructor at the local college who died in his lab. While Helma and Ruth search for the connection between the two men they cross paths with "Ground Up!" an organization that plants trees under the cover of darkness - ensuring plenty of murder and zany mayhem to go around.
Product details
- Paperback | 272 pages
- 106 x 171 x 17mm | 134g
- 01 May 2008
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- AVON BOOKS
- New York, United States
- English
- 0060790865
- 9780060790868
- 856,946
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