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Yoon, N. Everything, Everything. New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 2015. Print. ISBN: 9780553496642. Hardcover. $18.99.
Annotation: Eighteen-year-old Madeleine Whittier has Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, or, as she puts it, “bubble baby disease”, and has never left the safety of her house. But when the gorgeous, charming Olly moves in with his family to the house next door, Madeleine discovers a powerful need to see – and feel – more of what the world has to offer.
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What happens when a girl who can’t leave her house falls in love? Eighteen-year-old Madeline Whittier has Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, or, as she puts it, “bubble baby disease.” She has never left her house. She rarely has visitors besides her nurse, Carla, and her mother, who doubles as her doctor. But when a family moves in next door and one of them is a completely gorgeous, charming boy named Olly who is determined to talk to her, she can’t help her curiosity. Slowly, with Carla’s help, the two move from talking online to short meetings in person – with the appropriate decontamination protocol, of course – but Madeline wants more.
Told from Madeline’s point of view and broken up with email conversations, drawings, and appropriate book spoilers, Everything Everything is a beautiful story about fighting for the things that are worth living for. After all, how is she supposed to be content with her life in a bubble now that she has learned all that the world has to offer outside of it?
Literary Awards:
- #1 New York Times Bestselling debut
- New York Times, Sunday Book Review
- School Library Journal, Best Book of 2015
- Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
- School Library Journal, Starred Review
- School Library Journal, Starred Review for Audiobook
- Book Expo America Young Adult Buzz Panel selection (2015)
- Indies Introduce Debut selection
- #2 Indie Next Autumn 2015 selection
- American Library Association - 2016 Best Fiction for Young Adults selection
- American Library Association - 2016 Top 10 Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers selection
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