All We Know of Love

Zusatztext Teens will wonder at this unusual! fascinating examination of human intersection. —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Candid and alluring. —Publishers Weekly A well-crafted coming-of-age story. —VOYA Natalie encounters a variety of people with whom she briefly interacts! but who leave an impression on her. Their stories are inserted into the narrative as cameos! and she comes to understand that she can be loved for who she is—and not because she was a girl whose mother did not love her enough to stay. A moving coming-of-age story. —School Library Journal This sad but ultimately satisfying journey is well written and interspersed with familiar quotations about love. The simple lesson that Natalie begins to learn…that she must love herself first! before anyone else can love her back—is a lesson for all readers to absorb and understand. —Booklist Natalie’s navel-gazing is wise! lyrical! and familiar to the point of affirmation; readers will find their own experiences and emotions mirrored and amplified. —Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books A compelling narrative about the need for understanding and love. —Confessions of a Bibliovore blog Nora Raleigh Baskin jumpstarts the drama on page one! propelling the reader through until the very end. —Teenreads.com All We Know of Love is an exciting treasure —ALAN’s Picks Nora Baskin interviewed on "Writers on Writing" —https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/7GOkB9hV1ML7TM?domain=penonfire.blogspot.com Informationen zum Autor   Klappentext "Unusual! fascinating examination of human intersection and the myriad! imperceptible ways we relate to one another." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) When Natalie was eleven! her mother walked out mid-sentence and never came back. Now Natalie is almost sixteen and struggling with a toxic relationship! so she sets out on a bus trip to find her mother and figure out love. To her surprise! she meets people with stories like her own! stories about giving love and getting lost in the desire to be wanted. Acclaimed middle-grade novelist Nora Raleigh Baskin makes her young adult debut with a deeply resonant novel about secrets held and secrets shared! about having the courage to uncover all we know - and don't know - of love. My mother was telling me something just before she left for good, taking nothing with her (as far as we could tell). Leaving behind everything she had ever bought, everything she had ever wanted, everything she owned or had ever been given. And everything she had made: a lopsided clay bowl with the image of a tiny painted pineapple from her ceramic workshop days, a collage of family pictures cut in various sizes and shapes, pasted together and framed. She spent weeks on that. All the pressed wildflowers she had collected and laminated between sheets of clear plastic to last forever. And me. Me, she left behind. She walked out mid-sentence, before she finished what she was about to say. It was a long time ago already, four years. Four years, four months, and fifteen days to be exact. And for four years, four months, and twelve days, I didn't think for one second about what she never finished telling me. I gave no thought at all to her unfinished sentence. I suppose it is like being in a car accident. You don’t think about something as trivial as the conversation you were having at the moment of impact. Not until weeks later, if at all. It comes to you in daydream one day as you are remembering the crash, that awful crumbling-metal noise, and if you begin to reconstruct the instant at all, it may not be for months, or in my case, years. At first all I cared about was that she was gone. I wrote her letters. I made her Mother's Day gifts. When she had been gone sixteen months and seven days, I sewed her an orange dinosaur pillow in FACs cl...

Product details

• Authors: Nora Raleigh Baskin
• Publisher: Candlewick Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 14
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.01.2013
• EAN: 9780763666507
• ISBN: 978-0-7636-6650-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age