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1 online resource (265 pages) |
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Intro; Title Page; Dedication; Part One; Chapter 1: He Was an Adult and I Was Still a Kid; Chapter 2: Like the Story Wasn't Finished; Chapter 3: You've Got to Meet Him Yourself; Chapter 4: A Hymn to the Noble Art of Quitting; Chapter 5: He Never Told Anyone Else What I Did; Chapter 6: Living in a Regularly Updated Catalog; Chapter 7: It Would Have Been Horrible to Say All This; Chapter 8: Speeding Up the Process a Bit; Chapter 9: Just to Get Rid of the Cannonballs; Chapter 10: Let's Plug Our Phones In and Sleep Together; Chapter 11: The Sexual Tendencies of Teenage Boys |
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Chapter 12: Dozens of Deadly Laser BeamsChapter 13: The Boy Can Be a Boy; Chapter 14: Shifted the Conversation Like a Knife Across My Throat; Chapter 15: This Broken-Family Club; Chapter 16: Using the Same Basement You Were Currently Locked Away In; Chapter 17: They Didn't Run Away to Save Themselves but Sprinted Right into My Lava; Chapter 18: My Fist Rattling the Skull; Part Two; Chapter 19: Kill the I; Chapter 20: Love Has Not Necessarily Won; Chapter 21: What Put Her in the Rocket Ship Headed to Wherever She Is Now; Chapter 22: Confident and Brash and Defiant |
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Chapter 23: A "Purple Pleasure Bondage Kit"Chapter 24: There Is Always an Exit Window; Chapter 25: The Environment's Health Is the Last Thing on Her Mind; Chapter 26: He Has Sort of Become a Concept; Chapter 27: How Do You Turn Tragedy into Something Positive?; Chapter 28: To Side with the Antigones of the World and Never the Creons; Chapter 29: The Shaved Hollows of Their Teenage Armpits; Chapter 30: So Good at Something She Doesn't Enjoy; Chapter 31: In Love with a Fake Version; Chapter 32: He Smiles Like a Happy Wolf; Chapter 33: Coach Seems Very Pleased |
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Chapter 34: You Will Hate Yourself for ItChapter 35: It Feels Like She's Sitting on the TV Remote Control; Chapter 36: Squinting Out Her Rage; Chapter 37: I Truly Hope That Girl Will Be Perfect; Chapter 38: World Population Clock; Chapter 39: A Price to Pay for Pushing Beyond; Chapter 40: Velvety as a Good Kiss; About the Author; Praise for ""Every Exquisite Thing; A Sneak Peek of ""Sorta Like a Rock Star; Table of Contents; Copyright |
| Summary |
Nanette O'Hare is an unassuming teen who has played the role of dutiful daughter, hardworking student, and star athlete for as long as she can remember. But when a beloved teacher gives her his worn copy of The Bugglegum Reaper?a mysterious, out-of-print cult classic?the rebel within Nanette awakens. As she befriends the reclusive author, falls in love with a young but troubled poet, and attempts to insert her true self into the world with wild abandon, Nanette learns the hard way that rebellion sometimes comes at a high price. A celebration of the self and the formidable power of story, Every Exquisite Thing is Matthew Quick at his finest. |
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900L Lexile |
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Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.5 9 182421 |
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Accelerated Reader UG 5.5 9 182421 |
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When a teacher hands her a cult classic novel Nanette O'Hare discovers the rebel within her, but as she attempts to insert her true self into the world, Nanette learns that sometimes rebellion comes at a high price. |
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Nanette O'Hare, a star student and athlete, is given a mysterious out-of-print cult classic novel by her beloved teacher that sparks the rebel within her, but as she befriends the reclusive author and attempts to insert her true self into the world with wild abandon, Nanette learns the hard way that sometimes rebellion comes at a high price. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Books and reading -- Fiction.
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Self-realization -- Fiction.
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Authors -- Fiction.
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Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction.
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Books and reading -- Juvenile fiction.
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Self-realization -- Juvenile fiction.
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Authors -- Juvenile fiction.
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Teacher-student relationships -- Juvenile fiction.
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Teenagers -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
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Authors. |
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Books and reading. |
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Self-realization. |
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Teacher-student relationships. |
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Teenagers -- Conduct of life. |
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Juvenile works.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Quick, Matthew, 1973- Every exquisite thing New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2016 9780316379595 (DLC) 2015011641 (OCoLC)910072962 |
| ISBN |
9780316379625 : $54.00 |
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031637962X : $54.00 |
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