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The Thing About Jellyfish - Ali Benjamin (autographed copy)

Item Number
107
Estimated Value
40 USD
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Item Description

Suzy Swanson is pretty sure she knows the real reason Franny Jackson died. Everyone says that there’s no way to be certain…that sometimes things just happen. But Suzy knows there must be a better explanation—a scientific one. 

Haunted by the loss of her former best friend — and by a final, terrible moment that passed between them — she retreats into a silent world of her own imagination.  Convinced that Franny’s death was the result of a freak jellyfish sting, she crafts a plan to prove the truth, even if it means traveling around the globe… alone. As she prepares, she learns astonishing things about the universe around her… and discovers the potential for love and hope in her own backyard.

 

Ali Benjamin is the co-author of Tim Howard’s The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard (2014), and Paige Rawl’s Positive: A Memoir (2014), which is a coming-of-age memoir that was a Junior Library Guild selection[14] and the first-ever nonfiction selection for The Today Show book club.[15] The Keeper was a New York Times Best Seller in sports.[16] Benjamin has additionally authored the The Cleaner Plate Club (2010) with Beth Bader, which is a guide for parents to help them feed their kids a healthy diet.

Accolades for The Thing About Jellyfish

  • Best of 2015 (Books for Youth) — Booklist Editors’ Choice
  • 100 Notable Titles for Reading and Sharing (Children’s Books) — New York Public Library
  • Great Reads of 2015 (Staff Picks, Book Club Ideas, Kids’ Books, Realistic Fiction) — NPR
  • #4 of Top 10 YA & Children’s Books — TIME
  • Best of 2015 — School Library Journal
  • Best of 2015 — Publisher’s Weekly
  • Bestseller, Notable Book — New York Times
  • Bestseller — IndieBound
  • National Book Award Finalist, Young People’s Literature
  • Starred review — Kirkus Reviews
  • Starred review — Publisher’s Weekly
  • Starred review — Booklist
  • Starred review — School Library Journal
  • Starred review – Shelf Awareness
  • #1 on IndieNext Kids’ top ten list, fall 2015
  • Amazon.com Editor’s Pick: “Fall Favorites, 2015,” and “20 Best Children’s Books of 2015”
  • Selected for 2015 BEA’s Editors’ Buzz Panel, and named a BEA “Early Favorite for Young Readers,”
  • Listed as “hot, new YA” selection in Entertainment Weekly
  • Named a “Top Ten First Novel” by Booklist
  • Junior Library Guild, fall 2015 selection
  • Literary Hub, The Great Booksellers Fall Preview selection

Item Special Note

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