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Contributor(s): Starmer, Aaron (Author)

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 ISBN: 0525429743     ISBN-13: 9780525429746
Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
OUR PRICE: $15.29  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2016
* Out of Print *
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship
- Young Adult Fiction | Humorous - Black Comedy
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Death, Grief, Bereavement
Dewey: FIC
Age Level: 14-UP
Grade Level: 9-UP
Lexile Measure: 860(Not Available)
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.7" W x 8.3" L (1.20 lbs) 368 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Friendship
- Topical - Death/Dying
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/06/2016
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2016
Booklist 07/01/2016 pg. 55
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2016 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
School Library Journal 08/01/2016 pg. 116
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2016
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2016 pg. 120
Shelf Awareness 09/02/2016
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2017 - Superior,Well Above Average
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 185991
Reading Level: 5.7   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 13.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
Aaron Starmer skillfully welds sharp humor, deep loss, and roaring escapades. Truly the smartest and funniest book about spontaneous combustion you will ever read. --John Green, #1 bestselling author of The Fault In Our Stars

A TIME magazine Top 10 YA & Children's Book of 2016
An ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection

With all the perfectly lovely young adult novels out there, you decided to check this one out? It's got spontaneously combusting teenagers in it, dude. Not the slow burning type either. We're talking the randomly exploding variety. Seniors in high school just walking along, heading to class, whistling Beyonc , when--WA-BAM -- they're suddenly dripping off the lockers.

Is that really something you're into?

Confession: I'm actually kinda into that too. So, now that we've established we're both thoroughly weird and, I assume, thoroughly open-minded, we can give it shot, right? Let's at least read the opening chapters of this bad-boy and see if it features some of the more intriguing elements such as...

- Exploding teenagers (obviously).
- Hallucinogenic mushrooms.
- Pyromaniacal boyfriends.
- Triplet toddlers in powder blue suits.
- Amur leopards and doomsday preppers.
- A foul-mouthed female POTUS.
- Ashtanga yoga.
- ­Youtube sensations.
- Self-driving Priuses.
- Rogue FBI agents.
- Mad scientists.
- Homecoming.
- Spring break.
- Prom.
- And ... Jennifer Lawrence.

Notice how I put Jennifer Lawrence last. She's in the book, so it's not cheating. And hey, if it takes America's most beloved movie star to sell this thing, then that's what it takes.

So, in closing: Jennifer Lawrence.

Wildly inventive. -- Entertainment Weekly Must List

This comically surreal novel that will blow your mind."-- People Magazine

★ A blood-soaked, laugh-filled, tear-drenched, endlessly compelling read. -- Kirkus, starred review

★ A wholly original YA tale of identity, friendship, love, lust, and gory, grisly death. -- SLJ, starred review

Bursting with heartache and gore, Mara's narration appeals directly to readers'
senses of horror and humor. -- Horn Book
 
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