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Product Identifiers

PublisherSquare Fish

ISBN-101250050766

ISBN-139781250050762

eBay Product ID (ePID)180388116

Product Key Features

Book TitleYear of the Beasts

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSocial Themes / Dating & Relationships, Social Themes / Death & Dying, General, Family / Siblings, Social Themes / Friendship, Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings

Publication Year2014

IllustratorYes, Powell, Nate

GenreJuvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction

AuthorCecil Castellucci

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight8.1 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceYoung Adult Audience

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsA poignant and entertaining mixture of storytelling and nightmare." -- VOYA "Sophisticated readers will eat this . . . right up., "A poignant and entertaining mixture of storytelling and nightmare." - VOYA "Sophisticated readers will eat this . . . right up." - Kirkus Reviews "This is a book teens will likely read and reread." - Publishers Weekly, "Sophisticated readers will eat this . . . right up." -- Kirkus Reviews "This is a book teens will likely read and reread." -- Publishers Weekly "A poignant and entertaining mixture of storytelling and nightmare." -- VOYA

Grade FromSeventh Grade

Dewey Decimal[Fic]

Grade ToTwelfth Grade

SynopsisAlternating chapters of prose and comics (illustrated by Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist Nate Powell) are interwoven in Cecil Castelucci's extraordinary YA novel about jealousy and grief, and how they cut us off from the ones we love. Every summer the trucks roll in, bringing the carnival and its infinite possibilities to town. This year Tessa and her younger sister Lulu are un-chaperoned and want to be first in line to experience the rides, the food . . . and the boys. Except this summer, jealousy will invade their relationship for the first time, setting in motion a course of events that can only end in tragedy, putting everyone's love and friendship to the test. Castellucci's deft shifting between straight prose and graphic novel visualize how Tessa processes the events of the summer, seeing herself and her friends as freaks personified by characters from Greek mythology., Every summer the trucks roll in, bringing the carnival and its infinite possibilities to town. This year Tessa and her younger sister, Lulu, are unchaperoned and want to be first in line to experience the rides, the food . . . and the boys. Except this summer, jealousy will invade their relationship for the first time, setting in motion a course of events that can only end in tragedy, putting everyone's love and friendship to the test. Alternating chapters of prose and comics are interwoven in The Year of the Beasts , an extraordinary novel from Cecil Castellucci and Nate Powel that will break your heart and crack it wide open at the same time., Alternating chapters of prose and comics are interwoven in this extraordinary YA novel about grief and how it cuts us off from the ones we love.