Leaving Paradise

Elkeles, Simone

ISBN 10: 1417783931 ISBN 13: 9781417783939

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 2007

Synopsis

For use in schools and libraries only. Feeling like outsiders since Caleb Becker's drunken car accident left Maggie Armstrong a cripple, Caleb and Maggie end up finding comfort and strength from a surprising source: each other.

About this title

Review:

"Maggie and Caleb are complex and authentic teens all readers will embrace and care about. Theirs is a delicate, delicious love story--without the happy ending."

"Elkeles writes convincingly about family tensions, retreating from painful reality, and teens outgrowing their old skins." --School Library Journal

-Elkeles writes convincingly about family tensions, retreating from painful reality, and teens outgrowing their old skins.- --School Library Journal

About the Author:

Simone Elkeles is the author of Leaving Paradise and four other Flux novels, including How to Ruin Your Summer Vacation and How to Ruin Your Boyfriend's Repuation. She is also the author of the New York Times bestselling Rules of Attraction (Walker). A popular speaker at libraries around the country, when the author is not writing she TiVos reality television and watches teen movies. She lives near Chicago with her family and two dogs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1417783931
• ISBN 13: 9781417783939
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 303