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 Nora Raleigh Baskin  is the acclaimed author of several novels for young readers, including  Surfacing  and  All We Know of Love.  She lives in Connecticut. Klappentext The author of "What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows" returns with a boldly original tale about a girl who journeys through love and loss to find her mother and discovers that everyone has a story to tell--including herself. Leseprobe 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 class. I cried at night, and at sad TV shows, and, for some unknown reason, during first-aid filmstrips shown in gym class on rainy days. And then I stopped. Because all things need to come to an end. Good things and bad things. But then just recently I started to remember and I began to reconstruct. And wonder: if ...

Product details

• Authors: Nora Raleigh Baskin
• Publisher: Candlewick Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 14
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.08.2008
• EAN: 9780763636234
• ISBN: 978-0-7636-3623-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 207 mm x 22 mm
• Subject: Children's and young people's books