Under the Fading Sky

A teen boy thinks his vaping habit is harmless until it becomes a crippling addiction of nightmarish dimensions in this “vivid” (School Library Journal) young adult novel from Newbery and National Book Award winner Cynthia Kadohata.

So, stuff has, like, a beginning and an end.

And you don’t really realize that until the end, or right before.

Before that, you’re just thinking that you and your homies are chillin’ and getting high, and it’s all gonna work out. You know?

Truth is, the way life works is that you were born in the eye of a hurricane, and you think that’s just the way life is, calm-like.

Until…it isn’t.

So, yeah, Elijah is only sixteen, and already he would change a lot of stuff if he could go back in time.

But you can’t ever do that.

And when you can’t, that’s when you find out who you really are.

About the author

Cynthia Kadohata won the National Book Award for The Thing About Luck and the Newbery Medal for Kira-Kira. She’s also the author of many more critically acclaimed novels, including Checked, A Million Shades of Gray, A Place to Belong, Weedflower, Cracker!, and Outside Beauty. In addition to rescuing Dobermans, she’s also managed her son’s hockey team. She lives in California. Visit her online at CynthiaKadohata.com.

Summary

In this novel that pulses with Go Ask Alice or Tweak vibes, the vaping culture in our country is in the crosshairs of Newbery and National Book Award winner Cynthia Kadohata's steeliest attention.

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia Kadohata, Kadohata Cynthia
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 14
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2025
• EAN: 9781534482395
• ISBN: 978-1-5344-8239-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 422 g
• Illustrations: f-c jkt (coated; fx: emboss on matte); digital
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Mankind; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Peer Pressure, General fiction (Children's / Teenage)