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Everything, Everything
Author:
Yoon, Nicola
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Class:
Fiction
Age: 12-19
Language: English
Demand: High
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LC: PZ7.1
Grade: 7-12
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ISBN-13: 9780553496642
LCCN: 2015002950
Imprint: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Publisher: Delacorte Press
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Pub Date: 09/01/2015
Availability: Available
List: $18.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
H 8.56",
W 5.81",
D 1.09",
0.975 lbs.
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LC Series:
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's Diverse Titles: Black & African American (Teen)
Brodart's Diverse Titles: Multicultural (Teen)
Brodart's For Youth Interest Titles
Brodart's For Youth Interest: Popular
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Teen
Brodart's TOP Young Adult Titles
Brodart's YA Reads for Adults
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Bibliographies:
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Florida Teens Read Award Book lists
New York Times Bestsellers List
New York Times Bestsellers: Children's Middle Grade and Young Adult Books
Senior High Core Collection, 20th ed.
Senior High Core Collection, 21st ed.
Senior High Core Collection, 22nd ed.
South Carolina Children's Book Award Winners
Teens' Top Ten (YALSA)
Texas Tayshas Reading List
Young Adult Fiction Core Collection, 4th ed.
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Awards:
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Best Fiction for Young Adults
Best Multicultural Books List (CSMCL)
Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
Kirkus Starred Reviews
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
School Library Journal Best Books
School Library Journal Starred Reviews
Young Adults' Choices Reading List
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Starred Reviews:
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Kirkus Reviews
School Library Journal
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TIPS Subjects:
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Friendship
Romance
Health/Medicine/Safety (Consumer)
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BISAC Subjects: |
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / New Experience
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship
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LC Subjects:
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Allergy, Fiction
Allergy, Juvenile fiction
Friendship, Fiction
Friendship, Juvenile fiction
Love, Fiction
Love, Juvenile fiction
Racially mixed people, Fiction
Racially mixed people, Juvenile fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Friendship, Fiction
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Reading Programs: |
Accelerated Reader Level:
4.4
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Points: 7.0
Lexile Level:
610
Reading Counts Level:
4.4
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Points: 13.0
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| Annotations |
| Brodart's TOP Young Adult Titles | 09/01/2015 |
| A girl with an allergy that prevents her from going outside meets a new neighbor who helps her learn to embrace the world's more elusive beauty in a story told through vignettes, e-mails, illustrated lists, schedules, and more. Debut Novel, 320pp., Ill. |
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| Starred Reviews: |
| Kirkus Reviews | 07/15/2015 |
| Suffering from "bubble baby disease," Madeline has lived for 18 years in a sterile, sealed house with her physician mother. Madeline is a bright, witty young woman who makes the best of life with a compromised immune system by playing games with her mother, studying with online tutors, and writing brief spoiler book reviews on Tumblr. Her life is turned upside down when a troubled new family moves in next door and she sees Olly for the first time. Olly, a white boy "with a pale honey tan" and parcours moves, wants to meet her, but Madeline's mother turns him away. With the help of an indestructible Bundt cake, Olly perseveres until he gets her email address. Madeline--half Japanese, half African-American--chronicles her efforts to get to know Olly as she considers risking everything to be with him. She confides to her wise and understanding nurse, Carla, the truth she keeps from her overprotective mother: that it's painfully hard to be a teenager with a crush, yearning to venture outside and experience the world. Spot art by the author's husband, occasional lists in Madeline's handwriting, emails, and instant-messaging transcripts add a lively dimension to Madeline's quirky character. In her debut, Jamaican-American Yoon gives readers complex characters and rich dialogue that ranges from humorous to philosophical. This heartwarming story transcends the ordinary by exploring the hopes, dreams, and inherent risks of love in all of its forms. (Fiction. 12-17). 320pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2015. |
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| School Library Journal | 08/01/2015 |
| Gr 10 Up. From the first page, Madeline Whittier is a sympathetic character who has had to watch the world from the inside of a bubble--literally. Her diagnosed condition of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency is a life sentence that limits her to a world of two people: her mother, who is a doctor, and her nurse. Everything changes when Olly and his family move into the house next door. Olly is the kind of inventive guy who figures out a way to communicate with Madeline, and over the course of the next few months Madeline becomes Maddy, a young woman who takes potentially deadly risks to protect Olly emotionally, if not physically. Maddy's and Olly's hastily planned trip to Maui and their tastefully described liaison while there suggests a mature teen audience, but readers of Cammie McGovern's Say What You Will (HarperCollins, 2014) and Wendy Mills's Positively Beautiful (Bloomsbury, 2015) will fall in love with this humorously engaging story of a girl who discovers life, love, and forgiveness in new places. VERDICTEverything, Everything is wonderful, wonderful. Jodeana Kruse, R. A. Long High School, Longview, WA. 320p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2015. |
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| BookPage | 09/16/2015 |
| Madeline hasn't left her house for 17 years and only comes in daily contact with her mother (who is, coincidentally, also her doctor) and her nurse Carla. Madeline suffers from SCID (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease), making her essentially allergic to being outside. As a result, her home is sterile, with a special air filtration system, an air lock at the front door and a decontamination treatment for anyone who needs to visit her. She reads a lot of books and does all of her schooling via Skype. She has made peace with her life as she knows it--until a new family moves in next door. From her window, Madeline spots Olly, a boy about her age, and he stares back up at her. What starts out as an innocent crush quickly turns into more, as Madeline and Olly communicate through email, instant message and finally, after much cajoling from her nurse, meeting in person. Romance ensues, battles are fought and their love grows stronger. Nicola Yoon's debut is unique, starring an interracial couple and featuring hand-drawn illustrations. Readers will root for Madeline as she fights her disease, growing stronger and more confident with Olly's help. The relationship's fast pace may lead some readers to question its authenticity, but Yoon expertly handles mature family issues such as trust, love and, most of all, grief. Best suited for older teens, this is a quick summer read for fans of realistic teen fiction centered on romance. Erin A. Holt. BookPage Yay! YA Web Exclusive Review. BOOKPAGE, c2015. |
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| Booklist | 09/15/2015 |
| Grades 8-11. Featuring illustrations by the author's husband, David Yoon, Nicola Yoon's debut tells the story of Maddy, a biracial teenage girl with severe combined immunodeficiency, or SCID, who's essentially allergic to the world. Cared for by her physician mother and Carla the nurse, Maddy is confined to her antiseptic white home, where she communicates with tutors and online friends through her computer. She's never had a companion her own age until the arrival of Olly, who moves into the house next door. With Carla as her ally, Maddy defies her mother, allowing Olly into her house and her heart, and putting her very life at risk. Romance readers will root for the precocious Maddy as she falls hard for the boy next door, while careful readers will entertain the significant possibility of a plot twist. Though the interspersed illustrations and other documentation don't significantly enhance the reading experience, they do quicken the pace in a book that teens in search of a swoonworthy read will devour. Barnes, Jennifer. 320p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2015. |
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| Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books | 12/01/2015 |
| R. Gr. 9-12. Madeline has been largely content with her existence as a bubble girl, confined to her hermetically sealed house under her doctor mother's watchful eye because of an immune disorder that means she'll die if she goes outside. Her acquiescence ends when Oliver moves in next door, and the two begin to connect first by window-to-window miming and then by IM and email. Soon they're falling for each other and Oliver is being snuck into the house while Madeline's mother is out; when Madeline's mother finds out and cracks down on the relationship, eighteen-year-old Madeline decides it's time for rebellion and plans a glorious trip to Hawaii with Oliver to see everything she's longed to see and enjoy the experiences-including sex with Oliver-she's been yearning for. The narrative style is contemporary and accessible in its weaving together of short first-person chapters, texts from Madeline, her occasional drawings, and bits of other documentation. However, there are some vintage echoes, as the story not only recalls the fairy tales Madeline wryly acknowledges but also Victorian sentimental novels where the cloistered girl breaks free from the hold of a stern paterfamilias. Even in this modern form that plot still makes for a deeply satisfying combination of rebellion and romance, and the final twist adds a delicious touch of sensation without undoing the story's essential fabric. This is a readymade booktalk and an accessible quick pick for reluctant readers seeking that sweet spot of a cheesy but not goopy romance. DS. 309p. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV. OF ILLINOIS, c2015. |
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| Horn Book | 11/01/2015 |
| High School. Yoon's debut novel adds a twist to the time-honored genre of a terminally ill teen seizing his or her final days: for Maddy--who is suffering from Severe Combined Immunodeficiency and who, "allergic to the world," hasn't left her house in seventeen years--it's living to the fullest that would kill her. Maddy is resigned to her sequestered existence of online classes, voracious reading, and human contact with only her devoted mother and a sympathetic home nurse, until fellow teen Olly--isolated in his own way by an abusive father and frequent relocation--moves in next door. He and Maddy begin a secret friendship that blossoms into romance, then escalates into euphoria and then disaster when the couple runs away to Hawaii. The amalgamation of brief narrative chapters, emails, chat transcripts, sketches, and other visually distinct ephemera lends a jagged immediacy to this unconventional love story, and the minimalist intensity of Yoon's prose is well suited to the unfiltered wonder with which Maddy experiences the world outside her bubble. With its assured twists, matter-of-fact presentation of a biracial (black and Asian) protagonist, and sensitive depiction of loneliness in many different forms, Everything, Everything offers a thoughtful exploration of how we define life and living, while still delivering a breathless romance. claire e. gross. 311pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2015. |
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| Horn Book Guide | 05/01/2016 |
| 2. Maddy, who suffers from Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, is resigned to her sequestered existence until Olly moves in next door. Their secret friendship blossoms into romance, then escalates into euphoria and then disaster when the couple runs away to Hawaii. With its assured twists and sensitive depiction of loneliness in many forms, this novel offers a thoughtful exploration of how we define living. cg. 311pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2016. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 06/15/2015 |
| Ages 12-up. Madeline Whittier, a biracial 18-year-old, has severe combined immunodeficiency, a rare condition that renders her allergic to nearly everything and requires her to live inside a carefully sealed environment. Madeline's contact is limited to her physician mother and her full-time nurse, until handsome Olly moves in next door. Madeline falls for him from her window and begins disobeying the rules that keep her from the outside world. Despite the serious dangers posed by Madeline's medical condition and Olly's violently alcoholic father, Yoon's debut reads breezily. Many chapters consist of single, short paragraphs, as well as emails, chat exchanges, and Madeline's pithy book reviews (of Lord of the Flies, "Spoiler alert: Boys are savages"). Yoon's husband provides diagrams, cartoons, and other illustrations that reflect Madeleine's claustrophobia, whimsical longings, excitement over Olly, and sense of humor. The main conflict is resolved in a few brief pages and reflects an overall tendency for things to happen a bit too easily. Even so, this is an easy romance to get caught up in. Agent: Sara Shandler and Joelle Hobeika, Alloy Entertainment. (Sept.). 320p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2015. |
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| New York Times Book Review | 11/08/2015 |
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