Awards

• Commended for Georgia Children's Book Award (Children's Book) 2017
• Commended for National Book Awards (Young People's Lit.) 2015
• Commended for Parents Choice Awards (Fall) (2008-Up) (Fiction) 2015

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Praise for The Thing About Jellyfish * A painful story smartly told, Benjamin's first solo novel has appeal well beyond a middle school audience. Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Praise for The Thing About Jellyfish A 2015 National Book Award FinalistA New York Times BestsellerAn Indiebound BestsellerAn E.B. White Read-aloud Book Award FinalistAn Amazon Editor's Best Book of the 2015A 2015 GoodReads Choice Award FinalistAn Amazon Editor's Fall Favorite Children's BookA Booklist Top Ten First Novel of 2015A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2015A Hudson Booksellers Best Young Readers Book for 2015A Bank Street College Distinguished Children's Book

Praise for The Thing About Jellyfish A 2015 National Book Award FinalistA New York Times BestsellerAn Amazon Editor's Fall Favorite Children's BookA Booklist Top Ten First Novel of 2015

Seventh-grade narrator Suzy Swanson will win readers' hearts as she silently struggles to come to terms with her complex emotions over the death of her former best friend. Shelf Awareness

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Ali Benjamin is a National Book Award Finalist for The Thing About Jellyfish and the author of The Next Great Paulie Fink, as well as the adult novel The Smash-Up. She is also the co-writer for HIV-positive teen Paige Rawl's coming-of-age memoir Positive and Tim Howard's New York Times bestseller The Keeper. She is a member of New England Science Writers and has written for The Boston Globe Magazine, Martha Stewart's Whole Living, and Sesame Street. She lives in Massachusetts.

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