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Ness, Patrick.
THE REST OF US JUST LIVE HERE
New York : Harper Teen, 2015
IL YA
ISBN 0062403168


(2 booktalks)

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 Booktalk #1

Mikey, Jared, Mel, and Henna just want to get through high school. They suffer through the usual teen experiences – jealously, unrequited love, term papers – but they have also fought zombies and fallen in love with vampires (not your usual high school experience). Now, they have to face another challenge: one of them is “the chosen one.” (Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award nominee, 2018)

Booktalk #2

Mikey and his friends just want to get through the next few weeks.  Prom and graduation and then off to college. But things are happening in the town that are going unnoticed by many. If you aren't the Chosen One, it's easy to ignore things. But the Indie kids are there to help. All Mikey wants to do is go out with Henna. The story is told in separate narratives -- one about the Indie kids and the coming of the Immortal Ones. And then the rest of the kids who just live there.

SUBJECTS:    Dystopian fiction.
                        Fantasy fiction.
                        High schools -- Fiction.
                        Humorous fiction.
                        Teenagers -- Conduct of life -- Fiction.
                        Washington (State) -- Fiction.

 
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