 | Everything, everything Author: Yoon, Nicola | |
| Price: $11.47 | ||
Summary:
The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more.
| Illustrator: | Yoon, David |
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: UG Reading Level: 4.40 Points: 7.0 Quiz: 176408 |
Full Text Reviews:
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 - Copyright 2015 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.
Booklist - 09/15/2015 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. - Copyright 2015 Booklist.
