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Just in Case
Just in Case
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- Carnegie Medal Winner -
From the 2016 recipient of the Astrid Lindgren award and author of international bestseller How I Live Now, National Book Award finalist Picture Me Gone, and most recently Jonathan Unleashed David Case never questions his ordinary suburban life -- until one fateful day, a brush with death brings him face to face with his own mortality. Suddenly, everywhere he looks he sees catastrophe, disaster, the ruin of the human race, the demise of the planet...not to mention (to pinpoint the exact source of his anxiety) possible pain and suffering for himself. So he changes his name, reinvents his appearance, and falls in love with the seductive Agnes Bee -- in the hope that he'll become unrecognizable to Fate and saved from his own doom. With his imaginary greyhound in tow, Justin Case struggles to maintain his new image and above all, to survive in a world where twists of fate wait for him around every corner.
Author: Meg Rosoff
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 02/01/2008
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.18h x 5.64w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780452289376
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 107900 / Just in Case
From the 2016 recipient of the Astrid Lindgren award and author of international bestseller How I Live Now, National Book Award finalist Picture Me Gone, and most recently Jonathan Unleashed David Case never questions his ordinary suburban life -- until one fateful day, a brush with death brings him face to face with his own mortality. Suddenly, everywhere he looks he sees catastrophe, disaster, the ruin of the human race, the demise of the planet...not to mention (to pinpoint the exact source of his anxiety) possible pain and suffering for himself. So he changes his name, reinvents his appearance, and falls in love with the seductive Agnes Bee -- in the hope that he'll become unrecognizable to Fate and saved from his own doom. With his imaginary greyhound in tow, Justin Case struggles to maintain his new image and above all, to survive in a world where twists of fate wait for him around every corner.
Author: Meg Rosoff
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 02/01/2008
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.18h x 5.64w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780452289376
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 107900 / Just in Case
About the Author
Meg Rosoff grew up in Boston and worked in advertising for fifteen years before writing her first novel, How I Live Now, which has sold more than one million copies in thirty-six territories. It won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Printz Award, was short-listed for the Orange Prize and made into a film. Her subsequent five novels have been awarded or short-listed for, among others, the Carnegie Medal and the National Book Award. The laureate of the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, she lives in London with her husband, daughter, and two dogs. Her most recent novel is Jonathan Unleashed.
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