Awards

• Commended for Stonewall Book Award (Children/Young Adult) 2015
• Commended for Tayshas Reading 2015
• Winner of Children's Book Committee Award (Fiction) 2015
• Winner of Michael L. Printz Award (Young Adult) 2015
• Winner of Michael L. Printz Award Winner.

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Praise for The Sky Is Everywhere * This is a passionate, vulnerable, wonderfully complete and irresistible book. --VOYA, Starred Review Nearly everyone who's staggered through life in the wake of a loved one's death will recognize themselves in this brilliant, piercing story. It's a warm, deeply honest story that resonates with truth. -- The Denver Post Jandy Nelson has cast the intensity of first love together with the intensity of grief to produce a novel that is unusually rich with both insight and breathless romance. She writes with abandon, setting her characters free to live their excesses. It's a headlong sort of book, preferably devoured at a single sitting. -- Los Angeles Times Those who think young-adult books can't be as literary, rich, and mature as their adult counterparts will be disabused of that notion after reading The Sky Is Everywhere . .. First-time author and literary agent Jandy Nelson has created a finely-drawn portrait of grief and first love, with vivid characters and melodic prose. -- The Daily Beast Sky is both a profound meditation on loss and grieving and an exhilarating and very sexy romance. The book deserves multiple readings simply to savor Nelson's luscious language... --NPR (Chosen by Gayle Forman as one of five top teen reads of 2010) * Nelson documents Lennie's stumbling negotiation of her emotional maelstrom with delicacy and shimmering clarity, writing with sorrowful, consoling tenderness of the journey through various stages of bereavement...The characterization is clear-eyed and evocative...It's romantic without being gooey and tear-jerking without being campy--what more could a reader want? --BCCB, starred review From the opening paragraph, the author brilliantly navigates Lennie's course between despair and hope, sorrow and humor...Debut novelist Jandy Nelson possesses a rare gift for language and a finely tuned ear...a suspenseful and gripping love t

Praise for I'll Give You the Sun This is the big one--the blazing story of once inseparable twins whose lives are torn apart by tragedy. -- Entertainment Weekly * Readers are meant to feel big things, and they will--Nelson's novel brims with emotion (grief, longing, and love in particular) as Noah, Jude, and the broken individuals in their lives find ways to heal. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review The novel is structurally brilliant, moving back and forth across timelines to reveal each teen's respective exhilaration and anguish . . . Nelson's prose scintillates . . . dizzyingly visual . . . Here's a narrative experience readers won't soon forget. -- Kirkus A wild, beautiful, and profoundly moving novel. Jandy Nelson's writing is so electric, so alive, her pages practically glow in the dark. --Ransom Riggs, New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Hollow City Jandy Nelson is a rare, explosive talent, and one of the best writers working today. Her prose is vivid, breathtaking, and drenched in passion, and her stories remind me why words can change the world. --Tahereh Mafi, New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me series I love this book. Jandy Nelson is my new writing hero. Read this book. She'll be your favorite author as well. --Holly Goldberg Sloan, New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s Jandy Nelson's writing is poetic and mesmerizing. More importantly, Nelson weaves a novel that seeps into your bones like fire on a cold day . . . I'll Give You the Sun is a novel that promises a story like nothing else and then delivers it. --Garret Freymann-Weyr, author of Printz Honor book, My Heartbeat This is a stunning, artfully woven story. My heart burst open at the blazing, unforgettable end. Magnificent. --Nova Ren Suma, author of Imaginary Girls and 17 & Gone An extraordinary book! I've

Praise for I'll Give You the Sun This is the big one--the BLAZING story of once inseparable twins whose lives are torn apart by tragedy. -- Entertainment Weekly * Readers are meant to feel big things, and they will--Nelson's novel brims with emotion (grief, longing, and love in particular) as Noah, Jude, and the broken individuals in their lives find ways to heal. -- Publishers Weekly , starred review A wild, beautiful, and PROFOUNDLY MOVING novel. Jandy Nelson's writing is so electric, so alive, her pages practically glow in the dark. --Ransom Riggs, New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Hollow City Jandy Nelson is a rare, explosive talent, and one of the best writers working today. Her prose is VIVID, BREATHTAKING, and DRENCHED IN PASSION, and her stories remind me why words can change the world. --Tahereh Mafi, New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me series I love this book. Jandy Nelson is MY NEW WRITING HERO. Read this book. She'll be your favorite author as well. --Holly Goldberg Sloan, New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s Jandy Nelson's writing is poetic and MESMERIZING. More importantly, Nelson weaves a novel that seeps into your bones like fire on a cold day . . . I'll Give You the Sun is a novel that promises a story like nothing else and then delivers it. --Garret Freymann-Weyr, author of Printz Honor book, My Heartbeat This is a STUNNING, ARTFULLY WOVEN story. My heart burst open at the blazing, unforgettable end. MAGNIFICENT. --Nova Ren Suma, author of Imaginary Girls and 17 & Gone An extraordinary book! I'VE NEVER READ ANYTHING LIKE IT. Lyrical-unique-passionate-magical-tragic-hopeful--Nelson's characters will fly off the page and into your heart. --Nancy Garden, author of Annie on my Mind

Praise for I'll Give You the Sun This is the big one--the blazing story of once inseparable twins whose lives are torn apart by tragedy. -- Entertainment Weekly, 5 YA Novels to Watch Out For * Readers are meant to feel big things, and they will--Nelson's novel brims with emotion (grief, longing, and love in particular) as Noah, Jude, and the broken individuals in their lives find ways to heal. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review * A resplendent novel...Art and wonder fill each page. -- School Library Journal, starred review * In an electric style evoking the highly visual imaginations of the young narrators, Nelson captures the fraught, antagonistic, yet deeply loving relationship Jude and Noah share. -- Booklist The novel is structurally brilliant, moving back and forth across timelines to reveal each teen's respective exhilaration and anguish . . . Nelson's prose scintillates . . . dizzyingly visual . . . Here's a narrative experience readers won't soon forget. -- Kirkus Told in poetic prose with the barest hint of magical realism . . . a compelling meditation on love, grief, sexuality, family, and fate. -- Horn Book I'll Give You the Sun isa daydream . . . otherworldly and mesmerizing . . . Nelson's evocative language envelops one's imagination . . . an exquisite surrender to wonder and possibilities. -- The Boston Globe This one is going to be big... It is full of all the good stuff that sticks with you: love, identity struggles, loss, betrayal, and the complications of family, so you'll probably feel all the feels. --Bustle.com A blazing prismatic explosion of color . . . I'll Give You the Sun is that rare, immersive teen novel: To read it is a coming-of-age experience in itself. -- Entertainment Weekly It's a meditation on life, art, family, fate, and how even the most broken people can help fix one another . . . This book will tear through you like a hurricane, leaving you in ruined awe. -- Huffington Post Ingeniously told from the alternating perspectives of its spunky twin protagonists, this (technically) young adult noel jubilantly holds its own against the fall's grown-up offerings, with dead-on insights about surviving youth--and family. -- O, the Oprah Magazine You'd think that we were plugging The Fault in Our Stars, but even that comparison might sell short I'll Give You the Sun. .. [It's] planted firmly in the positive, making for a gravity-defying, life-affirming experience. -- San Francisco Magazine [Nelson] has an electrifying facility with description, especially how her characters feel at a given moment . . . [Jude], Noah, and the fine cast of subsidiary characters . . . are most memorable for how they poignantly illustrate the most basic of human emotions--love, grief, shame, remorse, joy. -- Chicago Tribune One of Fall's most anticipated YA books . . . it's filled with complex and controversial themes that are relatable to anyone who has struggled with identity, sexuality, family ties and other struggles of growing up. --Mashable.com Will pluck at your heartstrings. -- People A wild, beautiful, and profoundly moving novel. Jandy Nelson's writing is so electric, so alive, her pages practically glow in the dark. --Ransom Riggs, New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Hollow City Jandy Nelson is a rare, explosive talent, and one of the best writers working today. Her prose is vivid, breathtaking, and drenched in passion, and her stories remind me why words can change the world. --Tahereh Mafi, New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me series I love this book. Jandy Nelson is my new writing hero. Read this book. She'll be your favorite author as well. --Holly Goldberg Sloan, New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s Jandy Nelson's writing is poetic and mesmerizing. More importantly, Nelson weaves a novel that seeps into your bones like fire on a cold day . . . I'll Give You the Sun is a novel that promises a story like nothing else and then delivers it. --Garret Freymann-Weyr, author of Printz Honor book, My Heartbeat This is a stunning, artfully woven story. My heart burst open at the blazing, unforgettable end. Magnificent. --Nova Ren Suma, author of Imaginary Girls and 17 & Gone An extraordinary book! I've never read anything like it. Lyrical-unique-passionate-magical-tragic-hopeful--Nelson's characters will fly off the page and into your heart. --Nancy Garden, author of Annie on my Mind

Author Information

Jandy Nelson, like her characters in I’ll Give You the Sun, comes from a superstitious lot. She was tutored from a young age in the art of the four-leaf clover hunt; she knocks wood, throws salt, and carries charms in her pockets. Her debut novel, The Sky Is Everywhere, was on multiple Best Books of the Year lists, was a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick, earned numerous starred reviews, has been translated widely, and continues to enjoy great international success. Jandy has a BA from Cornell, an MFA in poetry from Brown, and another MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Currently a full-time writer, Jandy lives and writes in San Francisco, California—not far from the settings of The Sky Is Everywhere and I’ll Give You the Sun.

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