Maybe one day I can be thinner than I am now and have a boyfriend who loves me, but I’ll still be a liar.”
“Maybe no boy will love me or want to touch me ever, even in a dark room, even after an apocalypse when all the skinny girls have been wiped off the earth by some horrible plague. She divides her time between Los Angeles and coastal Georgia with her husband, kids, and literary cats. Her previous works include four novels for adults, as well as three nonfiction books. She also oversees Germ, a literary and lifestyle web magazine for girls and boys age high school and beyond that celebrates beginnings, futures, and all the amazing and agonizing moments in between. Jennifer is currently at work on her fourth and fifth novels for young adults, with number three- Breathless- coming out September 29. The film starring Elle Fanning, Justice Smith, Luke Wilson, and Keegan-Michael Key, is now streaming on Netflix, with a script by Jennifer and Liz Hannah (The Post).
It was named a Best Book of the Year by Time Magazine, NPR, the Guardian, Publisher's Weekly, YALSA, Barnes & Noble, BuzzFeed, the New York Public Library, and others, and was the #1 Kids' Indie Next Book for Winter '14-'15. Her books have been translated in over 75 languages, and All the Bright Places has won literary awards around the world, including the GoodReads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fiction of 2015. Jennifer Niven is the Emmy Award-winning #1 New York Times and International bestselling author of ten books, including All the Bright Places and Holding up the Universe.
Because sometimes when you meet someone, it changes the world, theirs and yours. Because the more time they spend together, the less alone they feel. When the two get tangled up in a cruel high school game-which lands them in group counseling and community service-Libby and Jack are both pissed, and then surprised. So he tells himself to play it cool: Be charming. He's the guy who can re-engineer and rebuild anything, but he can't understand what's going on with the inner workings of his brain. Even his own brothers are strangers to him. What no one knows is that Jack has a newly acquired secret: he can't recognize faces.
Yes, he's got swagger, but he's also mastered the impossible art of giving people what they want, of fitting in. I want to be the girl who can do anything.Įveryone thinks they know Jack Masselin, too. In that moment, I know the part I want to play here at MVB High. Now, Libby's ready: for high school, for new friends, for love, and for every possibility life has to offer. Following her mom's death, she's been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed "America's Fattest Teen." But no one's taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is.
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