You Know Me Well - Softcover

Levithan, David; LaCour, Nina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 150982393X ISBN 13: 9781509823932

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books, 2016

Synopsis

A funny, bright YA coming-of-age story about love, friendship and identity. For fans of Will Grayson, Will Grayson, John Green and Rainbow Rowell.

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Review

A Publishers Weekly Staff Pick for Best Summer Book of 2016!
A Bustle Summer 2016 YA Summer Reading Guide Pick!
A PopSugar Best Book of June
A New York Daily News Summer Pick for Teens
A Seventeen Magazine Best YA Book of 2016

"You Know Me Well perfectly encapsulates those fraught, end-all-be-all feelings of high-school romance and graduation. The raw emotion of this novel will delight fans of Rainbow Rowell and John Green." -BookPage

"Both authors excel at writing smart, funny, and realistic dialogue. These are characters to whom readers will relate and want to get to know." -School Library Journal

..".incisively explore(s) the excitement and costs of change, and the importance of friends in figuring out what to keep and what to jettison." -Publishers Weekly

"The pacing and voices of LaCour's and Levithan's alternating points of view are on point, keeping this sweet...tale moving gladly forward." -Kirkus Review

"Often subtle and always absorbing examination of fraught relationships...popular authors LaCour and Levithan tell their heartfelt story seamlessly in chapters that alternate between Mark's and Kate's respective points of view and invite readers' emotional engagement with these two empathetic teens." -Booklist

"A perfect read for the bolter in all of us... LaCour and Levithan join together to give an honest view of the anxious teenage psyche." -Romantic Times

"Two powerful forces in YA lit team up to tell one unique story in You Know Me Well." -Bustle

"Teens, queer or straight, are often dramatic and unsure of themselves, and by moving its characters beyond the coming-out trope and giving them other questions to focus on, this book gives them room to be." -Horn Book Review

"LaCour and Levithan are both dab hands at utopian romance." -The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"Nina LaCour and David Levithan are two of the best YA authors working right now, and this story is further proof. This fun, sweet novel beautifully captures the power of romantic and platonic love alike." -Seventeen Magazine "Top 10 YA Book of 2016"

"Few literary titles have been able to portray adult romance as honestly and believably as LaCour and Levithan manage to in this irresistible teenage tale. I can only hope this isn't the last we hear from Kate and Mark." -Edge Media

"Levithan and LaCour beautifully capture what it's like to have a romance against the backdrop of the cool grey city of love. There is something about this place that renders everything full of magic." -Forever Young Adult

"A sweet, hopeful story about finding the courage to live your truth -- whatever it may be. And of course, it's a story about the friends who guide us through it all." -Bustle's Beach Reads

From the Author

Nina LaCour is the author of the award-winning Hold Still and the widely acclaimed The Disenchantments. Formerly a bookseller and high school English teacher, she now writes and parents full time. A California native, Nina lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area David Levithan won the Lambda Literary Award for his debut novel Boy Meets Boy, but is probably best known for his collaborations with John Green (Will Grayson, Will Grayson) and Rachel Cohn (Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, which was also made into a movie). As well as being a New York Times best-selling author, David is also a highly respected children's book editor, whose list includes many luminaries of children's literature, including Garth Nix, Libba Bray and Suzanne Collins. He lives and works in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 150982393X
• ISBN 13: 9781509823932
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258