Nothing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780738713045)

"Sometimes trees can look healthy on the outside, but actually be dying inside. These trees fall unexpectedly during a storm." For high school senior Parker Rabinowitz, anything less than success is a failure. A dropped extracurricular, a C on a calc quiz, a non-Jewish shiksa girlfriend--one misstep, and his meticulously constructed life splinters and collapses. The countdown to HYP (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) has begun, and he will stay focused. That's why he has to keep it a secret. The pocketful of breath mints. The weird smell in the bathroom. He can't tell his achievement-obsessed father. He can't tell his hired college consultant. And he certainly can't tell Julianne, the "vision of hotness" he so desperately wants to love. Only Parker's little sister Danielle seems to notice that he's withering away. But the thunder of praise surrounding Parker and his accomplishments reduces her voice to broken poetry: I can't breathe when my brother's around because I feel smothered, blank and faded

Author: Robin Friedman
ISBN-10: 073871304X
ISBN-13: 9780738713045
Publisher: Flux
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2008
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 7.02h x 5.04w x 0.59d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.1
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 126315 / Nothing

Award: Sydney Taylor Book Award - Notable

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Review - Children 07/15/2008 pg. 749
School Library Journal 10/01/2008 pg. 144
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2008 pg. 15
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2008