ISBN: 9781250808363
Editorial: Wednesday Books
Autor: Summers, Courtney
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 352
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: About the AuthorCourtney Summers is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of several novels for young adults, including Cracked Up to Be, All the Rage and Sadie. Her work has been released to multiple starred reviews, received numerous awards and honors--including the Edgar Award, John Spray Mystery Award, Cybils Award, Odyssey Award, and International Thriller Award--and has been recognized by many library, 'Best Of' and Readers' Choice lists. She lives and writes in Canada.The next searing and groundbreaking queer young adult novel from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Courtney Summers, already hailed as..."A stirring, thought-provoking thriller.”―Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push"A stunner."―Kate Elizabeth Russell, New York Times bestselling author of My Dark Vanessa"Powerful."―Angeline Boulley, #1 New York Times bestselling and Printz Award-winning author of Firekeeper’s DaughterAll sixteen-year-old Georgia Avis wants is everything, but the poverty and hardship that defines her life has kept her from the beautiful and special things she knows she deserves. When she stumbles upon the dead body of thirteen-year-old Ashley James, Georgia teams up with Ashley's older sister Nora, to find the killer before he strikes again, and their investigation throws Georgia into a glittering world of unimaginable privilege and wealth--and all she's ever dreamed. But behind every dream lurks a nightmare, and Georgia must reconcile her heart's desires with what it really takes to survive. As Ashley's killer closes in and their feelings for one another grow, Georgia and Nora will discover when money, power, and beauty rule, it's not always a matter of who is guilty but who is guiltiest--and the only thing that might save them is each other.A spiritual successor to the breakout hit Sadie, I’m the Girl is a brutal and illuminating account of how one young woman feels in her body as she struggles to navigate a deadly and predatory power structure while asking readers one question: if this is the way the world is, do you accept it?ReviewPraise for I'm the Girl:A September/October Kids' Indie Next pickApartment Therapy, "If You’re Going to Read One Book in September, Make It This One"Autostraddle, "103 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Fall 2022"Book Riot, "11 September Mystery & Thriller Books to Read", "30 Of the Buzziest, Best Fall Books Of 2022", "New Releases Tuesday: The Best Books Out This Week"BuzzFeed, "All The Best Books Releasing In September"Bookish, " September’s Most-Anticipated Books"Bustle, "Most Anticipated Books Of September"CBC, "65 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in fall 2022" and "27 Canadian books we can't wait to read in September"CrimeReads, "The Most Anticipated Crime Books of Fall 2022"Daily Hive, "12 hot-off-the-press books we recommend reading this September"E!News, "Books to Read in September"Epic Reads, "The 20 Most Anticipated YA Books to Read in September"GoodReads, "39 of the Most Anticipated YA Books for the Rest of the Year" and "September's Highly Anticipated Young Adult Books"Kirkus, "150 Most Anticipated Books of the Fall"LitHub, "Gothics, Whodunnits, Psychologicals, Historicals, and More: 19 Young Adult Reads for the Summer"Paste Magazine, "The Best New YA Books of September 2022"Publishers Weekly, "New and Noteworthy Children's and YA Books: September 2022"SheReads, "Best YA Thrillers Coming in 2022" and "Best Books of Fall 2022"The Honey POP, "September Book Releases to Welcome Fall"The Lesbrary, "34 Bi and Lesbian Books Out September 2022"United by Pop, "13 Must Read YA Book Releases For September 2022"USA Today, "5 Best New Books of the week""Summers’ latest masterful thriller takes on the world of wealth and privilege to examine questions of power, predatory behavior, and, ultimately, complicity, and agency... a heartbreaking, brutal, and devast
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