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Not nothing / Gayle Forman.
When troubled twelve-year-old Alex is assigned to spend his summer volunteering at a senior living facility, he forms a unique bond with a Holocaust survivor and learns lessons that change the trajectory of his life.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781665943277 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 280 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Aladdin, 2024.
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 10 up. |
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| Subject: | Self-esteem > Juvenile fiction. Friendship > Juvenile fiction. Old age > Juvenile fiction. Holocaust survivors > Juvenile fiction. Jews > Poland > Juvenile fiction. |
| Genre: | Jewish fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | J FIC Forma | 31681030049621 | JFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Assigned to work at a nursing home for the summer, Alex meets Josey, a 107-year-old Holocaust survivor who stopped talking years before, and forming an unlikely bond, he starts to believe he can make a difference in the world. Simultaneous eBook. - Baker & Taylor
When troubled twelve-year-old Alex is assigned to spend his summer volunteering at a senior living facility, he forms a unique bond with a Holocaust survivor and learns lessons that change the trajectory of his life. - Simon and Schuster
Four starred reviews!
âThe book we all need at the time we all need it.â âKatherine Applegate, Newbery Awardâwinning author of The One and Only Ivan
In this âtale of intergenerational friendship forged through a shared understanding of lossâ¦told with spellbinding graceâ (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Gayle Forman, a boy assigned to spend his summer volunteering at a senior living facility learns unexpected lessons.
Alex is twelve, and he did something very, very bad. A judge sentences him to spend his summer volunteering at a retirement home where heâs bossed around by an annoying and self-important do-gooder named Maya-Jade. He hasnât seen his mom in a year, his aunt and uncle donât want him, and Shady Glenâs geriatric residents seem like zombies to him.
Josey is 107 and ready for his life to be over. He has evaded death many times, having survived ghettos, dragnets, and a concentration campâall thanks to the heroism of a woman named Olka and his own ability to sew. But now he spends his days in room 206 at Shady Glen, refusing to speak and waiting (and waiting and waiting) to die. Until Alex knocks on Joseyâs doorâ¦and Josey begins to tell Alex his story.
As Alex comes back again and again to hear more, an unlikely bond grows between them. Soon a new possibility opens up for Alex: Can he rise to the occasion of his life, even if it means confronting the worst thing that heâs ever done?
