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2016 Carnegie Medal (nominee)
2016 YA Book Prize (nominee)
Award-winning writer Patrick Ness’s bold and irreverent novel powerfully reminds us that there are many different types of remarkable.
Award-winning writer Patrick Ness’s bold and irreverent novel powerfully asks what if you weren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life. Even if your best friend might just be the God of mountain lions... An exceptional novel from the author praised by John Green as "an insanely beautiful writer".
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Award-winning writer Patrick Ness’s bold and irreverent novel powerfully asks what if you weren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life. Even if your best friend might just be the God of mountain lions... An exceptional novel from the author praised by John Green as "an insanely beautiful writer".
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Praise for this book
"Magical, mysterious, and breathtakingly suspenseful...An absolute marvel of imagination, invention, and heart." - Michael Cart
"The Rest of Us Just Live Here is the antidote to all things formulaic: it's meta, playful, wise, and true-and clever as hell." - Emily M Danforth
"The Rest of Us Just Live Here is the antidote to all things formulaic: it's meta, playful, wise, and true-and clever as hell." - Emily M Danforth
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