Nix Minus One

Now in a new paperback edition! From the award-winning author, Jill MacLean, comes a free-verse story about a boy, a dog, and the way they save each other.

About the author

Acclaimed author Jill MacLean is the author of five novels for older juvenile and young adult readers, best known for her novel, The Nine Lives of Travis Keating. Among other honors, several of her books have won the Ann Connor Brimer Award and been nominated for the CLA Book Awards, the OLA Forest of Reading Awards, and the SYRCA awards. Nix Minus One is also a prestigious White Ravens Selection and Bank Street Best Book. Jill lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, near her family. Her latest release is a historical novel for adults, The Arrows of Mercy (2023). 

Summary

Now in a new paperback edition! From the award-winning author, Jill MacLean, comes a free-verse story about a boy, a dog, and the way they save each other.

Foreword

• 5,000-copy print run 
• Featured at physical and virtual library conferences  
• Classroom guide for educators now available  
• Promotion on social media, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, and Pinterest 
• E-newsletter promotion 

Product details

• Authors: Jill MacLean
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 24.01.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781772783353
• ISBN: 978-1-77278-335-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life; self-esteem, Guilt, grief, Novels in verse, Brothers and sisters, Guilt -- Juvenile fiction., Human-animal relationships -- Juvenile fiction., Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction., Grief -- Juvenile fiction., Self-esteem -- Juvenile fiction., Teenagers and death, Human-animal relationships, Teenagers and death -- Juvenile fiction.