Product Details
Category - Fiction / Juvenile Fiction
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Good
Listed - A year ago
Views - 11
Ships From - Wisconsin
Est. Publication Date - Aug 2014
Seller Description
Ex libris..Some fading, a little water marking. Very cool book! 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
Overview
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling
ISBN: 9780307979742
Publisher Description
In this novel in verse, two very different girls bond while hospitalized for Crohn's disease.
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