Because It Is My Blood

Author:   Gabrielle Zevin
Publisher:   Square Fish
Volume:   2
ISBN:  

9781250034229


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   10 September 2013
Recommended Age:   From 12 to 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Gabrielle Zevin
Publisher:   Square Fish
Imprint:   Square Fish
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 20.90cm
Weight:   0.331kg
ISBN:  

9781250034229


ISBN 10:   1250034221
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   10 September 2013
Recommended Age:   From 12 to 18 years
Audience:   Young adult ,  Teenage / Young adult
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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An engaging heroine, lots of humor...in this Godfather for teens. B+ --EW.com Readers who enjoy mob stories and visions of future societies will be pleased. As in the first book, Zevin provokes thought about what we make illegal and why. -- School Library Journal The idea of a world in which chocolate, coffee, and other stimulants have been outlawed is alluring, and Anya is a strong, smart protagonist. Fans will want to find out what happens to her. -- VOYA Discerning characters' true motives will keep readers guessing, and the conflicting forces within Anya add an extra dimension of drama to this action-packed sequel. -- Publishers Weekly This sequel to All These Things I've Done (2011) paints on such a broad canvas that readers will be amazed at Zevin's management abilities...Zevin's strong suit is characterization, and it shines here. Whatever the nefarious plot, no one becomes a cartoon character--like chocolates, each is delicious in his or her own right. -- Booklist Fans of the first will enjoy the author's inventive combination of chocolate, crime and politics, as well as finding out Anya's post-prison fate. -- Kirkus Reviews Anya's flaws are what make her a complicated, thoroughly human character, one whom readers will enjoy continuing to try to understand...Readers will love her, flawed as she is. --Teenreads.com<br>


An engaging heroine, lots of humor . . . in this Godfather for teens. B+ --EW.com Readers who enjoy mob stories and visions of future societies will be pleased. As in the first book, Zevin provokes thought about what we make illegal and why. -- School Library Journal The idea of a world in which chocolate, coffee, and other stimulants have been outlawed is alluring, and Anya is a strong, smart protagonist. Fans will want to find out what happens to her. -- VOYA Discerning characters' true motives will keep readers guessing, and the conflicting forces within Anya add an extra dimension of drama to this action-packed sequel. -- Publishers Weekly This sequel to All These Things I've Done paints on such a broad canvas that readers will be amazed at Zevin's management abilities. . . . Zevin's strong suit is characterization, and it shines here. Whatever the nefarious plot, no one becomes a cartoon character--like chocolates, each is delicious in his or her own right. -- Booklist Fans of the first will enjoy the author's inventive combination of chocolate, crime and politics, as well as finding out Anya's post-prison fate. -- Kirkus Reviews Anya's flaws are what make her a complicated, thoroughly human character, one whom readers will enjoy continuing to try to understand. . . . Readers will love her, flawed as she is. --Teenreads.com


An engaging heroine, lots of humor . . . in this Godfather for teens. B+ EW.com Readers who enjoy mob stories and visions of future societies will be pleased. As in the first book, Zevin provokes thought about what we make illegal and why. School Library Journal The idea of a world in which chocolate, coffee, and other stimulants have been outlawed is alluring, and Anya is a strong, smart protagonist. Fans will want to find out what happens to her. VOYA Discerning characters' true motives will keep readers guessing, and the conflicting forces within Anya add an extra dimension of drama to this action-packed sequel. Publishers Weekly This sequel to All These Things I've Done paints on such a broad canvas that readers will be amazed at Zevin's management abilities. . . . Zevin's strong suit is characterization, and it shines here. Whatever the nefarious plot, no one becomes a cartoon character--like chocolates, each is delicious in his or her own right. Booklist Fans of the first will enjoy the author's inventive combination of chocolate, crime and politics, as well as finding out Anya's post-prison fate. Kirkus Reviews Anya's flaws are what make her a complicated, thoroughly human character, one whom readers will enjoy continuing to try to understand. . . . Readers will love her, flawed as she is. Teenreads.com


An engaging heroine, lots of humor...in this Godfather for teens. B+ --EW.com Readers who enjoy mob stories and visions of future societies will be pleased. As in the first book, Zevin provokes thought about what we make illegal and why. -- School Library Journal The idea of a world in which chocolate, coffee, and other stimulants have been outlawed is alluring, and Anya is a strong, smart protagonist. Fans will want to find out what happens to her. -- VOYA Discerning characters' true motives will keep readers guessing, and the conflicting forces within Anya add an extra dimension of drama to this action-packed sequel. -- Publishers Weekly This sequel to All These Things I've Done (2011) paints on such a broad canvas that readers will be amazed at Zevin's management abilities...Zevin's strong suit is characterization, and it shines here. Whatever the nefarious plot, no one becomes a cartoon character--like chocolates, each is delicious in his or her own right. -- Booklist Fans of the first will enjoy the author's inventive combination of chocolate, crime and politics, as well as finding out Anya's post-prison fate. -- Kirkus Reviews Anya's flaws are what make her a complicated, thoroughly human character, one whom readers will enjoy continuing to try to understand...Readers will love her, flawed as she is. --Teenreads.com


Author Information

Gabrielle Zevin is the New York Times and internationally best-selling author of several critically acclaimed novels, including The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, which is now a motion picture, and Young Jane Young. Her most recent novel is Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, one of the best books of the year, according to the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Entertainment Weekly, the Atlantic, Oprah Daily, Slate, NPR, the Hollywood Reporter, and many other outlets. Her novels have been translated into forty languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

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