This is a memoir about how an ordinary boy faced with a terminal illness, became extraordinary and captured my heart. A 12 year-old boy diagnosed with cancer begins a journey of giving back and caring more about others than himself. A story about his courage and the hope he offers to everyone he encounters.
In this intensely romantic debut novel, a teen figure skater falls in love with her skating partner—who is also the boy next door.
... please assure her that I am on my way . And thank you again , Ms. Fuller . Everything they say about cold and unfeeling New Yorkers is obviously untrue in your case . God bless you . Sincerely , Maxwell Friedlander To : John Trent ...
The Boy Next Door is a moving and powerful debut about two people finding themselves and each other in a time of national upheaval.
Whenever my brother, McGillicuddy, was home from college, he told Dad and me at breakfast what he'd dreamed about the night before. Lindsay Lohan kicking his butt on the sidewalk after he tried to take her picture (pure fantasy).
For use in schools and libraries only. Taryn has been friends with her next-door neighbor Jeff forever, but their friendship begins to change when they start sixth grade, in this story told from both Taryn and Jeff's point of view.
As Hugh enters his 96th year, this could be America's last chance to hear these stories from a living source. They are full of his signature charm, grace, musicality, and poeticism.
When handsome Scott moves next door and becomes Shadyside High's new football star, Lauren and Crystal go out of their way to attract his attention, unaware that his last girlfriend died under mysterious circumstances. Original.
THE STORY: The place is a communal residence in a New England city, where four mentally handicapped men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly burned out young social worker named Jack.
Anna had everything figured out – she was about to start senior year with her best friend, she had a great weekend job and her huge work crush looked as if it might finally be going somewhere.
It's the first day at my new school and I already have a wide load sticker on my back. But this is still better than life was before. Before I was taken away from my parents. Before I moved in with my grandma. Before I met Jon Scoller.