With dark humor, cutting insight, and beautiful prose, acclaimed author Elizabeth Scott delivers a searing story of a teenage girl struggling to put the pieces of her life back together after the accident that killed her best friend.
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- HarperTeen/TW
- Carton Qty: 60
- Selling Territory: W
- 60,000
- LC: 2008031420
- PUBLISHING HISTORY
- Tr 9780061122835
- Subsidiary Rights: UK/Trans/Audio
Text: HarperCollins Publishers; Dramatic
Text: Creative Media Agency
- On Sale: 4/27/2010
- Teen Fiction
- pb 9780061122859 $8.99 ($9.99)
- 304 pages; 5 5/16 x 8
- Age: 12 up-; Grades: 7 up
- Model ISBN: 9780061122828
Stealing Heaven
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Stealing Heaven
Elizabeth Scott
- Hardcover
- 9780061122804
- 5/27/2008
- $16.99 ($22.50 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
- Library
- 9780061122811
- 5/27/2008
- $17.89 ($23.89 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
- Paperback
- 9780061122828
- 6/23/2009
- $8.99 ($11.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Love You Hate You Miss You
Elizabeth Scott
- Hardcover
- 9780061122835
- 5/26/2009
- $16.99 ($22.50 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
- Library
- 9780061122842
- 5/26/2009
- $17.89 ($23.89 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
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“Few other writers tell stories as heartbreaking, hilarious, complicated, and true as Elizabeth Scott, and Love You Hate You Miss You is probably her very best yet.”
—Claudia Gray, author of Evernight
“Reminiscent of John Green’s Looking for Alaska (2005)...a satisfying story of an engaging heroine successfully naming and confronting her demons.”
—ALA Booklist
“Elizabeth Scott is quickly becoming one of my favorite writers, possessing great range and a willingness to lead readers into even the most heart-wrenching of stories. In Love You, Hate You, Miss You, Amy blames herself for her best friend Julia’s death. To begin healing, she must discover who she is on her own and come to terms with what really happened.”
—Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of Tantalize and Eternal
"The plot is elegantly carried by [Amy's] honest, clear expression of how she feels about what she is going through."
—School Library Journal
"Layered with emotion."
—Publishers Weekly
“One teen’s grief is thoroughly, heart-wrenchingly explored in this affecting novel. Scott takes no shortcuts with characterization; everyone is shaded with nuance.”
—The Horn Book
Praise for Stealing Heaven:
“Good escapist entertainment.”
“Good escapist entertainment.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A gripping story about growing up, breaking free, and making some of life’s most important choices. Stealing Heaven grabbed me on the first page and didn’t let me go until the very last word.”
—Carolyn Mackler, author of Tangled and The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book
"An addictive book about a real world that feels like a fantasy-where everything gleams of silver and nothing stays in one place for very long."
—Maureen Johnson, author of 13 Little Blue Envelopes
“Stealing Heaven just may steal your heart.”
—A. M. Jenkins, author of Repossessed, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book
“Deceptively touching.... The twist of a family of thieves gives the story originality.”
—School Library Journal
“Scott tells a surprising story.... Dani is a brave teen who can and does shape a strong future for herself. ”
—ALA Booklist
"Dani, with her witty dialogue, gives a new perspective full of hope to YAs who feel trapped between family and friends."
—KLIATT
“This blend of old-fashioned love story with lively contemporary details will satisfy readers fond of a solid summer romance.”
—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Awards
ALA Best Book for Young Adults