Emmy & Oliver - Softcover

Benway, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1471144135 ISBN 13: 9781471144134

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's UK, 2015

Synopsis

Oliver's absence split us wide open, dividing our neighborhood along a fault line strong enough to cause an earthquake. An earthquake would have been better. At least during an earthquake, you understand why you're shaking.

Emmy and Oliver were going to be best friends forever, or maybe even more, before their futures were ripped apart. But now Oliver is back, and he's not the skinny boy-next-door that used to be Emmy's best friend. Now he's the boy who got kidnapped. A stranger - a totally hot stranger! - with a whole history that Emmy knows nothing about.

But is their story still meant to be? Or are they like the pieces of two different puzzles - impossible to fit together?

About this title

Review:

"Robin Benway writes with her full heart. Emmy & Oliver is a genuinely sweet and funny novel bursting with the inextinguishable forces of love-between parents and children, distant and inseparable friends, new and reunited lovers."--Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Isla and the Happily Ever After

"At times heartfelt, funny, irreverent, and ultimately satisfying... a good choice for fans of Stephanie Perkins's Anna and the French Kiss or any of Sarah Dessen's novels."--School Library Journal

"Benway peels away the surface and digs down to the raw emotions the teens and their families feel... as a portrait of the emerging adolescent, it engages."--Kirkus

Robin Benway writes with her full heart. Emmy & Oliver is a genuinely sweet and funny novel bursting with the inextinguishable forces of love-between parents and children, distant and inseparable friends, new and reunited lovers. --Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Isla and the Happily Ever After"

Benway examines split loyalties, the impact of confessionals, and how broken bonds can be mended Benway s intriguing premise and honest tone are a winning combination as she movingly portrays the growing trust between her characters. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"

At times heartfelt, funny, irreverent, and ultimately satisfying a good choice for fans of Stephanie Perkins s Anna and the French Kiss or any of Sarah Dessen s novels. --School Library Journal"

Benway peels away the surface and digs down to the raw emotions the teens and their families feel as a portrait of the emerging adolescent, it engages. --Kirkus"

Benway fearlessly examines the effects of loss and return from every perspective Hope, confusion, frustration, and love coexist without shame as teens and parents come to grips with the realization that nothing stays the same no matter how desperately we want it to. --Booklist"

This realistic and painful story... twists and turns... until the bittersweet, yet perfect, ending.--Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)"

Emmy s narration is smart and sassy, and the romance plot is satisfying... An unusual blend of a soulmate story, a melodramatic plot, and a realistic book about adjustment, growth, and change, this will please romance fans as well as pragmatic souls with a sentimental streak. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books"

From the Back Cover:

Emmy just wants to be in charge of her own life.

She wants to stay out late, surf at her favorite beach--go anywhere without her parents' relentless worrying. But Emmy's parents can't seem to let her go--not since the day ten years ago when her best friend, Oliver, disappeared.

Oliver needs a moment to figure it all out.

He'd thought, all these years, that his father was the good guy. He never knew that his dad had kidnapped him and kept him on the run. Discovering it all at once--and returning to his old hometown--has his heart aching and his thoughts swirling.

Emmy & Oliver were going to be best friends forever.

They could have been even more, before their futures were ripped apart. To Emmy, despite the space and time between them, their connection has never been severed. But is their story still meant to be? Or are their hearts like the pieces of two different puzzles--impossible to fit together?

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's UK
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1471144135
• ISBN 13: 9781471144134
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352