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![]() ![]() ![]() But can he save his mom-and himself-before it's too late?Ĭontributor Bio(s): Reiss, Kathryn: - KATHRYN REISS is the author of Time Windows, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults The Glass House People Dreadful Sorry Pale Phoenix, a finalist for the Edgar Award as well as PaperQuake: A Puzzle. But the artist who created those paintings died before his mom was even born.Ĭonnor gets his chance to break the evil link between the past and the present when he is mysteriously whisked back in time to the 1920s. Connor suspects that the key to his mom's strange behavior is an old art book filled with paintings of a woman who looks exactly like her. Something is terribly wrong with Connor's mom-she keeps slipping into bizarre trances. ![]() Reading Level: 4.7 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 10.0 Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories Juvenile Fiction | Historical - General When he's whisked back to the 1920s, Connor tries to break the evil link.Ĭlick for more in this series: Time Travel Mysteries Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: When Connor's mother slips into strange trances, he suspects old paintings of a woman who looks just like her are the cause. ![]() ![]() ![]() Weeks later, on a beach in France, Lucas Moreau discovered the balloon and immediately emailed the attached addressed, sparking an intense friendship between the two teens. Attached was her name, her email address…and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. In this charming and poignant novel, teenager Emmie Blue releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it now, fourteen years later, the one thing Emmie has been counting on is gone for good, and everything she planned is up in the air.Īt sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. ![]() The reason you will love Dear Emmie Blue is because you’ve probably *lived* Dear Emmie Blue, in some small part of your own journey to adulthood.” - Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author “A delightful story about how the things we imagine to be best for us usually aren’t. ![]() ![]() ![]() So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett’s son, Davis.Īza is trying. Plus, Aza is Green’s most complex and compelling character to date.ĭaisy drags her along to investigate the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, whose son was friends with Aza at camp a few years before. ![]() The author’s sense of humor, talent at creating witty characters – real teens don’t talk like this, but who cares? – and ability to weave a compelling story drives you to turn the page. As in most of his other novels, Turtles features a quirky best friend, a romantic interest, and a mystery. The answer? John Green has a winning formula. ![]() “Sometimes I wondered why she liked me, or at least tolerated me. How can this book be entertaining, you ask? Aza herself wonders how she can have such a loyal “Best and Most Fearless Friend” in Daisy. Even during happy times, the nagging voice intrudes and ruins the moment. So it’s no surprise that Aza’s anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder interferes with her ability to live a normal life. The voice in her head plays an endless loop of facts about viruses and bacteria, constantly warning her to use hand sanitizer or take more extreme action. The protagonist of John Green’s new novel Turtles All The Way Downis consumed by worries about germs – her own and other people’s. ![]() |