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The New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things and What to Say Next delivers a poignant and hopeful novel about resilience and reinvention, first love and lifelong friendship, the legacies of loss, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
Sometimes looking to the past helps you find your future.
Abbi Hope Goldstein is like every other teenager, with a few smallish exceptions her famous alter ego, Baby Hope, is the subject of internet memes, she has asthma, and sometimes people spontaneously burst into tears when they recognize her. Abbi has lived almost her entire life in the shadow of the terrorist attacks of September 11. On that fateful day, she was captured in what became an iconic photograph in the picture, Abbi (aka "Baby Hope") wears a birthday crown and grasps a red balloon; just behind her, the South Tower of the World Trade Center is collapsing.
Now, fifteen years later, Abbi is desperate for anonymity and decides to spend the summer before her seventeenth birthday incognito as a counselor at Knights Day Camp two towns away. She's psyched for eight weeks in the company of four-year-olds, none of whom have ever heard of Baby Hope.
Too bad Noah Stern, whose own world was irrevocably shattered on that terrible day, has a similar summer plan. Noah believes his meeting Baby Hope is fate. Abbi is sure it's a disaster. Soon, though, the two team up to ask difficult questions about the history behind the Baby Hope photo. But is either of them ready to hear the answers?
PDF Hope and Other Punch Lines eBook Julie Buxbaum
"I loved Julie Buxbaum's first two YA books, so of course jumped on this one. It's darker than the other two, but it's no less good for being different.
If you haven't read anything by this author before, you might not believe that she could do a light, fun romance against the backdrop of a 9/11 story, but she absolutely can. I rarely literally laugh out loud when I'm reading, but I did multiple times in this book, mostly because of Abbi. I really liked her connection with Noah, and all of their secondary problems - friendship, parents, secrets, illness, expectations.
Our reading teen was born well after 9/11, so I'm always interested in how she'll deal with books like this. Lots to discuss, both world events and personal tragedies."
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Hope and Other Punch Lines eBook Julie Buxbaum Reviews :
Hope and Other Punch Lines eBook Julie Buxbaum Reviews
- I loved Julie Buxbaum's first two YA books, so of course jumped on this one. It's darker than the other two, but it's no less good for being different.
If you haven't read anything by this author before, you might not believe that she could do a light, fun romance against the backdrop of a 9/11 story, but she absolutely can. I rarely literally laugh out loud when I'm reading, but I did multiple times in this book, mostly because of Abbi. I really liked her connection with Noah, and all of their secondary problems - friendship, parents, secrets, illness, expectations.
Our reading teen was born well after 9/11, so I'm always interested in how she'll deal with books like this. Lots to discuss, both world events and personal tragedies.
