Miles from Ordinary

Author:   Carol Lynch Williams
Publisher:   St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN:  

9780312555122


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   15 March 2011
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Imagine Anna Quindlen or Sue Miller turning her attention to writing a young adult novel, and you have an idea what [Williams] has done for early teen readers... --Audrey Couloumbis, author of the Newbery Honor Book Getting Close to Baby Thirteen-year-old Lacey wakes to a beautiful summer morning excited to begin her new job at the library, just as her mother is supposed to start work at the grocery store. Lacey hopes that her mother's ghosts have finally been laid to rest; after all, she seems so much better these days, and they really do need the money. But as the hours tick by and memories come flooding back, a day full of hope spins terrifyingly out of control.... No one can get inside the head and heart of a 13-year-old girl better than Carol Lynch Williams, and I mean no one, said James S. Jacobs, Professor of Children's Literature at Brigham Young University, of her breakout novel, The Chosen One. Now this award-winning YA author brings us an equally gripping story of a girl who loves her mother, but must face the truth of what life with that mother means for both of them.

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Author:   Carol Lynch Williams
Publisher:   St. Martin's Griffin
Imprint:   St. Martin's Griffin
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.10cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9780312555122


ISBN 10:   0312555121
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   15 March 2011
Audience:   Young adult ,  Teenage / Young adult
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

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Absorbing....[Williams] has crafted both a riveting, unusual suspense tale and an absolutely convincing character in Lacey. The book truly is miles from ordinary, in the very best way. Outstanding. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In a novel spanning a mere 24 hours, Williams takes readers on an emotional roller-coaster ride....Poignant. -- Publishers Weekly Gripping....Provocatively dark and at times downright scary, this novel will have readers rushing to the unforeseen, achingly authentic conclusion. -- Booklist Praise for THE CHOSEN ONE: A powerful and heartbreaking novel of love and hope. --Meg Cabot, New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries and Airhead Fiction can offer emotional truth where other tools fail ....Williams unveils life among the Chosen with spare, evocative writing and an honest sense of character that helps bridge the rift between Kyra's world and ours....The cinematic drama of her life...is a means to reach a quieter truth, revealing that moment in childhood when you recognize your thoughts as your own and discover forces in the world that your parents cannot--or will not--protect you from. -- The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) Intensely gripping and grippingly intense. -- Kirkus Reviews Extraordinary.... The Chosen One is brave, its plumb is true, it's a masterpiece. --Kathi Appelt, author of the National Book Award finalist The Underneath Makes the heart race, the teeth grind, and the brow bead up in sweat. --Gregory Maguire, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked and A Lion Among Men


Absorbing....[Williams] has crafted both a riveting, unusual suspense tale and an absolutely convincing character in Lacey. The book truly is miles from ordinary, in the very best way. Outstanding. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In a novel spanning a mere 24 hours, Williams takes readers on an emotional roller-coaster ride....Poignant. -- Publishers Weekly Gripping....Provocatively dark and at times downright scary, this novel will have readers rushing to the unforeseen, achingly authentic conclusion. -- Booklist Praise for THE CHOSEN ONE: <br> A powerful and heartbreaking novel of love and hope. --Meg Cabot, New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries and Airhead<br> Fiction can offer emotional truth where other tools fail ....Williams unveils life among the Chosen with spare, evocative writing and an honest sense of character that helps bridge the rift between Kyra's world and ours....The cinematic drama of her life...is a means to reach a quieter truth


Author Information

Carol Lynch Williams is the author of young adult novels including The Chosen One, which was named one of 2010 ALA's Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and Best Books for Young Adult Readers. It also won the Whitney and the Association of Mormon Letters awards for the best young adult fiction of the year, as well as numerous other honors. Williams was the winner of the 2009 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship. She grew up in Florida and now lives in Utah.

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