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Published in 2014, Jandy Nelson's I'll Give You the Sun tells the story of fraternal twins Noah and Jude through two different points in their adolescence. Noah narrates the earlier period at thirteen, while Jude's perspective comes at sixteen. The split structure lets readers compare their accounts...
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Printz Award winner with major critical acclaim, high reader ratings, and strong reputation for voice, structure, and emotional force.
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The Sky Is Everywhere is the debut young adult novel by Jandy Nelson, published in 2010. It follows seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, a clarinetist living in Northern California, as she navigates grief following the sudden death of her older sister Bailey. The novel incorporates poems and notes writ...
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Well-regarded debut praised for lyrical grief writing and romance, though less decorated and more polarizing than Nelson's later novel.
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