NEW NOVEL OUT IN HARDCOVER AND AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK!
*an ALA Quick Pick for Young Adults*
FEATURED on "TOUGH STUFF" table at Barnes and Noble Nationwide!!
YOU HAVE SEVEN MESSAGES - Stewart Lewis - Delacorte Press/Random House
It's been a year since Luna's mother, the fashion-model wife of a successful film director, was hit and killed by a taxi in the East Village. Luna, her father, and her little brother, Tile, are still struggling with grief. But when Luna goes to clean out her mother's old studio, she's stunned to find her mom's cell phone there--charged and with seven unheard messages. As Luna begins to listen to them, she learns more about her mother's secret life than she ever wanted to know . . . and she comes to realize that the tidy tale she's been told about her mother's death may not be the whole truth. Enlisting the help of her dreamy neighbor, Oliver, Luna begins to piece together the events leading up to her mother’s death and the people around her who may have kept deeper secrets than she would have liked. As Luna begins to question the society she lives in, she creates a medium for the hurt and the pain by taking photographs of her everyday world. Through these frames she is better able to understand that who we are at face value doesn’t make up the entire composition of the photograph. And that sometimes the answer isn’t always what we’re searching for.
"Luna is someone to weep with and to cheer for, to wish was your best friend. Readers will fall in love with Luna and her dazzling world."-Emily Wing Smith, Author of BACK WHEN YOU WERE EASIER TO LOVE
"Following Luna through a hazy grief state after the death of her mother is like a beautiful dream. This book takes your hand and leads you on a wonder-filled adventure."-Melissa Walker, Author of SMALL TOWN SINNERS
"The love story element shines, and the book offers a nice window in the the life of privileged New York youngsters, refreshingly filled with protective and involved adults." - Kirkus Reviews
“Luna narrates her story in fluid, thoughtful prose, and her unfolding of her mother’s story is absorbing and, despite the more contemplative pace, genuinely suspenseful; her growing understanding of her parents as people rather than icons is delicately traced. . . . a lovely contemporary fairy tale, with a sad Upper West Side princess at the heart of it, and that’s a kind of folklore that many readers will enjoy.” —The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, Recommended
*an ALA Quick Pick for Young Adults*
FEATURED on "TOUGH STUFF" table at Barnes and Noble Nationwide!!
YOU HAVE SEVEN MESSAGES - Stewart Lewis - Delacorte Press/Random House
It's been a year since Luna's mother, the fashion-model wife of a successful film director, was hit and killed by a taxi in the East Village. Luna, her father, and her little brother, Tile, are still struggling with grief. But when Luna goes to clean out her mother's old studio, she's stunned to find her mom's cell phone there--charged and with seven unheard messages. As Luna begins to listen to them, she learns more about her mother's secret life than she ever wanted to know . . . and she comes to realize that the tidy tale she's been told about her mother's death may not be the whole truth. Enlisting the help of her dreamy neighbor, Oliver, Luna begins to piece together the events leading up to her mother’s death and the people around her who may have kept deeper secrets than she would have liked. As Luna begins to question the society she lives in, she creates a medium for the hurt and the pain by taking photographs of her everyday world. Through these frames she is better able to understand that who we are at face value doesn’t make up the entire composition of the photograph. And that sometimes the answer isn’t always what we’re searching for.
"Luna is someone to weep with and to cheer for, to wish was your best friend. Readers will fall in love with Luna and her dazzling world."-Emily Wing Smith, Author of BACK WHEN YOU WERE EASIER TO LOVE
"Following Luna through a hazy grief state after the death of her mother is like a beautiful dream. This book takes your hand and leads you on a wonder-filled adventure."-Melissa Walker, Author of SMALL TOWN SINNERS
"The love story element shines, and the book offers a nice window in the the life of privileged New York youngsters, refreshingly filled with protective and involved adults." - Kirkus Reviews
“Luna narrates her story in fluid, thoughtful prose, and her unfolding of her mother’s story is absorbing and, despite the more contemplative pace, genuinely suspenseful; her growing understanding of her parents as people rather than icons is delicately traced. . . . a lovely contemporary fairy tale, with a sad Upper West Side princess at the heart of it, and that’s a kind of folklore that many readers will enjoy.” —The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, Recommended
listen to stewart's song "seven messages" that goes along with the book!
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