Dying to Go Viral
Autor Sylvia McNicollen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 apr 2013 – vârsta de la 13 până la 15 ani
What would you do if you only had one week to live? A skateboarding accident claims 14-year-old Jade’s life when she skitches (hitches herself to a car) in order to appear on youtube; she neglected to wear the helmet she promised her father she would always use. In a Japanese garden she meets her mother who died when Jade was eight. She begs for the chance to return to earth if only to improve relations between her brother and father and Mom negotiates a one week do-over for her.
What can she achieve? A date for her father? A new job for her brother? Her first kiss? Jade can't tell anyone what is going on, which is bad enough, but after discovering a love for life that she's never known, will she be able to let go? Or will she try to cheat fate?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781554552719
ISBN-10: 1554552710
Pagini: 251
Dimensiuni: 142 x 181 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: FITZHENRY & WHITESIDE
ISBN-10: 1554552710
Pagini: 251
Dimensiuni: 142 x 181 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: FITZHENRY & WHITESIDE
Recenzii
Praise for Last Chance for Paris by Sylvia McNicoll:
” This involving novel combines a family story highlighting the mysterious link between twins with a wilderness adventure told through the eyes of a likable city girl. Written with elements of wry humor and romance, this novel features a narrator whose disarmingly candid opinions make her an appealing guide for readers who usually veer away from backwoods adventures or survival stories.” (Booklist)
”The story's sharp pacing and very human characters are engaging, and McNicoll deftly portrays the complexities of family and relationships. Readers will identify with the twins' evolving dramas." (School Library Journal)
” This involving novel combines a family story highlighting the mysterious link between twins with a wilderness adventure told through the eyes of a likable city girl. Written with elements of wry humor and romance, this novel features a narrator whose disarmingly candid opinions make her an appealing guide for readers who usually veer away from backwoods adventures or survival stories.” (Booklist)
”The story's sharp pacing and very human characters are engaging, and McNicoll deftly portrays the complexities of family and relationships. Readers will identify with the twins' evolving dramas." (School Library Journal)
Notă biografică
Sylvia McNicoll wrote her first book, Blueberries and Whipped Cream, as a project for a college writing course in order to explore a tragedy that occurred in her own highschool. She went on to teach creative writing at that same college for nine years, edit a parenting magazine for another eight years and write 29 more novels for a variety of age groups. Most acclaimed are her three dog guide fostering stories: Bringing Up Beauty, Beauty Returns and A Different Kind of Beauty which won and were nominated for many children’s choice awards. Last Chance for Paris, her adventure book set on the icefields of Columbia, explored ecological issues with glaciers before climate warming became a popular issue. Her recent novel ,crush. candy. corpse, tells the story about a teen on trial for the manslaughter of an Alzheimer’s patient. Reviewers and bloggers have declared it a must read for all high school students. In her thirtieth book Death Goes Viral, already a blockbuster hit in Norway, Sweden and Finland, Sylvia returns to the theme of life and death and the values our own mortality inspires in us.
Extras
It was a perfect day to die: Labour Day, that last breath of freedom before starting school. Cotton ball clouds sailed in a baby blue sky. White gold sunshine warmed the fall air. And I had someplace to go.
I walked onto the driveway in front of our house clutching the skateboard my brother Devon had given me last week for my 14th birthday. The sandpaper-covered deck felt rough against my palms but the bottom felt slick.
“It’s not safe,” my father had told Devon at our breakfast celebration. “I don’t like it when you jump around on concrete and now you’re starting her.”
“I won’t do jumps,” I had promised him as I sat at the kitchen table admiring my present. The bottom of the board was red with orange flames spelling out the word “hot.” “And I’ll always wear my helmet.”
I walked onto the driveway in front of our house clutching the skateboard my brother Devon had given me last week for my 14th birthday. The sandpaper-covered deck felt rough against my palms but the bottom felt slick.
“It’s not safe,” my father had told Devon at our breakfast celebration. “I don’t like it when you jump around on concrete and now you’re starting her.”
“I won’t do jumps,” I had promised him as I sat at the kitchen table admiring my present. The bottom of the board was red with orange flames spelling out the word “hot.” “And I’ll always wear my helmet.”
Descriere
When a skateboarding accident claims 14-year-old Jade's life, she negotiates a one-week do-over in heaven. Will she attempt to improve the world or simply live life full out? Or will she try to cheat fate instead?