All Alone in the Universe

Lynne Rae Perkins

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"Before last summer Maureen and I were best friends....At least I think we were. I don't know what happened exactly. As some people who get hit by trucks sometimes say, 'I didn't see anything coming.'"

When her best friend since the third grade starts acting as though Debbie doesn't exist, Debbie finds out the hard way that life can be a lonesome place. But in the end the heroine of this wryly funny coming-of-age story--a girl who lives in a house covered with stuff that is supposed to look like bricks but is just a fake brick pattern--discovers that even the hourly tragedies of junior high school can have silver linings, just as a house covered with Insul-Brick can protect a real home. This first novel shines--fun, engrossing, bittersweet, and wonderfully unpredictable.

Book Details

Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Publish Date: Aug 14th, 2007
Pages: 224
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.54in - 5.24in - 0.50in - 0.33lb
EAN: 9780380733026
Recommended age: 08-12
Categories: • Social Themes - Friendship• Humorous Stories• Social Themes - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance

About the Author

Perkins, Lynne Rae: -

Lynne Rae Perkins was awarded the Newbery Medal for Criss Cross. She is the author of five other novels--All Alone in the Universe, As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth, Nuts to You, Secret Sisters of the Salty Sea, and Violet and Jobie in the Wild. Lynne Rae Perkins has also written and illustrated several acclaimed picture books, including Frank and Lucky Get Schooled, The Broken Cat, Snow Music, Pictures from Our Vacation, The Cardboard Piano, Wintercake, and The Museum of Everything. The author lives with her family in northern Michigan. Visit her online at lynnerae.com.

Praise for this book

"An exceptional first novel. You feel at heart that this is a story of an artist being born."-- "The Horn Book""A poignant story written with sensitivity and tenderness."-- "School Library Journal"Debbie's first-person narrative is sharp, funny, uneasy, spiteful, fragile."-- "ALA Booklist"