Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church – Reaching for the Stars!
Auction Ends: Sep 30, 2012 09:00 PM EDT

Books

Three Novels for Young Adults

Item Number
223
Estimated Value
60 USD
Sold
48 USD to erobbins
Number of Bids
7  -  Bid History

Item Description

This set of three books by Janet Young will be inscribed by the author to the person of your choice.

Janet Ruth Young lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts, graduated from Salem State College and from the creative writing program at Boston University. She was a co-editor of the literary magazine stet and a founder of Writers' Circle, the writing workshop at the Cambridge Women's Center. Having left her job as a textbook editor to pursue a career as a novelist, Janet has published three novels with Atheneum Books for Young Readers, a division of Simon & Schuster.

The Opposite of Music  (2007), about a teen boy who attempts to save his father from a life-threatening depression, won the PEN New England Discovery Award and was a Book Sense Pick, a Borders Original Voices selection, and an American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults nominee. 

The Babysitter Murders  (2011), about a babysitter who has thoughts of harming the child she cares for, was nominated for a CYBIL and received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. A paperback edition with a new author's note will be released in the fall of 2012.

Janet's much-anticipated third novel, My Beautiful Failure, tells the story of a teenage boy who volunteers at a suicide hotline and falls in love with a troubled caller. Failure will be available in stores on November 13, 2012.

Item Special Note

This item must be picked up from the Unitarian Universalist Church, located at 10 Church Street in downtown Gloucester. Otherwise, winning bidder must pre-pay the cost of packaging and shipping item.

 


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