Breaktime - Softcover

Chambers, Aidan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081097262X ISBN 13: 9780810972629

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 2008

Synopsis

The first two novels in Printz-winner Aidan Chambers's Dance Sequence are at last available in a fresh format that will draw teens to these classics of YA literature.

Literature is crap. Fiction is, anyway. A pretense. Ersatz. . . . When you read a story you are pretending a lie. --Morgan

What begins as a game for Ditto--the refutation of his friend Morgan's Charges Against Literature--quickly escalates into a multilevel challenge. After Ditto's father suffers a heart attack in the middle of one of their fights, Ditto decides he has to get away for a few days to sort out his life. His chronicle of his experiences becomes his rebuttal to Morgan's Charges. But is this thought-provoking examination of people and ideas all fact . . . or fiction? Aidan Chambers leaves it up to the reader to decide in this novel that Publishers Weekly calls "excruciatingly funny as well as touching."

Includes a new afterword from the author!

Praise for Aidan Chambers

Michael L. Printz Award winner

Carnegie Medal winner

Hans Christian Andersen Award winner

About this title

Review:

"Clever and imaginative, wide and spacious" (Evening Standard)

"An immensely rich piece of work . . . Entertaining, stimulating and thought-provoking" (School Library Journal)

Book Description:

The first and second books in the critically acclaimed Dance Sequence by Carnegie Medal-winning author, Aidan Chambers

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 081097262X
• ISBN 13: 9780810972629
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 183