Awards

• Commended for Tayshas Reading 2010
• Short-listed for Costa Book Awards (Children's) 2008

Overview

Positive. Negative. It's how you look at it. . . . Someone shoves a photo negative into Rowan's hands. She is distracted but, frankly, she has larger problems to worry about. Her brother is dead. Her father has left. Her mother won't get out of bed. She has to take care of her younger sister. And keep it all together . . . But Rowan is curious about the mysterious boy and the negative. Who is he? Why did he give it to her? The mystery only deepens when the photo is developed and the inconceivable appears. Everything is about to change for Rowan. . . . Finally, something positive is in her life. Award-winning author Jenny Valentine delivers a powerful and life-affirming story of grief, friendship, and healing that will resonate long after the last page.

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9780060850715

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Reviews

[A] warm, graceful first person narrative...readers will stick by Rowan as she builds sustaining new relationships. --Horn Book Magazine Completely gorgeous. A tremendously sympathetic and engaging central character and huge dollops of intense love and pain. This book has it all. --www.thebookbag.co.uk Give this poignant, rewarding story to teens who need books dealing with grief who crave romance amid tragedy and hardship. --School Library Journal Most enjoyable: a life-affirming, witty, romantic read, about freedom, responsibility and love. --Sunday Times (London) The story is delicately written. A solid tale of what it takes to grow up and how to ask for help. --Publishers Weekly This is rich, satisfying storytelling, indeed. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The language is simple, but its crafting is deft and emotional. Rowan herself is a believable blend of heroic and desperate, and the book is particularly perceptive. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)

This is rich, satisfying storytelling, indeed. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

[A] warm, graceful first person narrative.readers will stick by Rowan as she builds sustaining new relationships. -- Horn Book Magazine

[A] warm, graceful first person narrative...readers will stick by Rowan as she builds sustaining new relationships. --Horn Book Magazine Completely gorgeous. A tremendously sympathetic and engaging central character and huge dollops of intense love and pain. This book has it all. --www.thebookbag.co.uk Give this poignant, rewarding story to teens who need books dealing with grief who crave romance amid tragedy and hardship. --School Library Journal This is rich, satisfying storytelling, indeed. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The language is simple, but its crafting is deft and emotional. Rowan herself is a believable blend of heroic and desperate, and the book is particularly perceptive. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review) The story is delicately written. A solid tale of what it takes to grow up and how to ask for help. --Publishers Weekly Most enjoyable: a life-affirming, witty, romantic read, about freedom, responsibility and love. --Sunday Times (London)

This is rich, satisfying storytelling, indeed. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) [A] warm, graceful first person narrative.readers will stick by Rowan as she builds sustaining new relationships. -- Horn Book Magazine Give this poignant, rewarding story to teens who need books dealing with grief who crave romance amid tragedy and hardship. --School Library Journal The story is delicately written. A solid tale of what it takes to grow up and how to ask for help. --Publishers Weekly Most enjoyable: a life-affirming, witty, romantic read, about freedom, responsibility and love. --Sunday Times (London) Completely gorgeous. A tremendously sympathetic and engaging central character and huge dollops of intense love and pain. This book has it all. --www.thebookbag.co.uk [A] warm, graceful first person narrative...readers will stick by Rowan as she builds sustaining new relationships. --Horn Book Magazine This is rich, satisfying storytelling, indeed. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) This is rich, satisfying storytelling, indeed. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The language is simple, but its crafting is deft and emotional. Rowan herself is a believable blend of heroic and desperate, and the book is particularly perceptive. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review) Most enjoyable: a life-affirming, witty, romantic read, about freedom, responsibility and love. --Sunday Times (London) Completely gorgeous. A tremendously sympathetic and engaging central character and huge dollops of intense love and pain. This book has it all. --www.thebookbag.co.uk The story is delicately written. A solid tale of what it takes to grow up and how to ask for help. --Publishers Weekly Give this poignant, rewarding story to teens who need books dealing with grief who crave romance amid tragedy and hardship. --School Library Journal [A] warm, graceful first person narrative readers will stick by Rowan as she builds sustaining new relationships. --Horn Book Magazine The language is simple, but its crafting is deft and emotional. Rowan herself is a believable blend of heroic and desperate, and the book is particularly perceptive. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)

Author Information

Jenny Valentine worked in a food shop for fifteen years, where she met many extraordinary people and sold more organic bread than there are words in her first book. She studied English literature at Goldsmith's College, which almost made her stop reading but not quite. Her debut novel, Me, the Missing, and the Dead, won the prestigious Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in the UK under the title Finding Violet Park. Jenny is married to a singer/songwriter and has two children. She lives in Hay on Wye, England.

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