Together, Apart
(Sprache: Englisch)
A collection of original contemporary love stories set during life in lockdown by some of today's most popular YA authors.
Erin Craig "delivers" on a story about a cute pizza delivery boy, Auriane Desombre captures a girl trying to impress her...
Erin Craig "delivers" on a story about a cute pizza delivery boy, Auriane Desombre captures a girl trying to impress her...
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A collection of original contemporary love stories set during life in lockdown by some of today's most popular YA authors.Erin Craig "delivers" on a story about a cute pizza delivery boy, Auriane Desombre captures a girl trying to impress her crush on TikTok, and Bill Konigsberg takes readers along on daily walks where every step brings two boys closer to love. There's roommates-to-enemies-to-something more from Rachael Lippincott, a tale of a girl with a mask-making business and her potentially famous crush from Erin Hahn, and a music-inspired meet cute from Sajni Patel. Brittney Morris sparks a connection with the help of two balcony herb gardens, Jennifer Yen writes an unconventional romance that starts with a fortune reading and a take-out order, and Natasha Preston steals hearts when a girl meets up with the boy next door in a storybook oak tree.
Romantic, realistic, sweet and uplifting, TOGETHER, APART is a collection of finding love in unexpected places during an unprecedented time . . . each with the one thing we all want: a guaranteed happy ending.
In support of the book's publication, a donation will be made to Active Minds, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health education, research, and advocacy for young adults ages 14-25.
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Love, Delivered by Erin A. Craig
This is it! Mom said brightly, opening the door to my new room with a grand, ceremonial swing.
I stepped over the threshold, eyes wide as I took in the high arched ceiling, the oak window seat, and my lamp--a bust of Edgar Allan Poe I d made in ceramics class, already assembled and looking hopelessly out of place against the stark white walls.
You and me both, buddy.
What do you think? Dad asked, coming up behind us. Just a second, he called down to one of the guys from the moving company.
This is it, I echoed, trying to muster enough cheer to appease them.
Do you like it? Mom asked, pushing back one of the curtains the previous owners had left behind. It was some sort of floral chintz and would be coming down the second I was alone. We were going to wait and let you pick for yourself, but then on the tour--this just screamed Millie.
It was a cool room, I couldn t deny that.
It just wasn t my room.
But it was now, I supposed, no matter how I felt.
Mom and Dad were both scientists. Researchers who specialized in viral pathology. Mom had gotten a pretty sweet job offer at the University of Michigan, working in the hospital labs during the summers and spending the rest of the year as a professor. Dad was going to stay at home while he worked on writing his first book. Some dry textbook he swore would be in freshman biology classes all over the country.
Not a fun book, like the thrillers and mysteries I read.
I d never seen them so excited before.
We were supposed to leave Memphis in May, allowing me to get through school and still spend part of the summer with my friends, getting to do all our favorite things together one last time. I d have June, July, and August to settle in and hopefully meet some new friends,
... mehr
just before senior year would start.
But then COVID-19 broke out and literally everything fell apart.
I didn t finish the school year. I didn t get one last concert or film festival, no last Grizz game or barbecue nachos, no cupcakes from Muddy s bakery.
I didn t even get to say goodbye.
Our house--our old house--already had an offer on it, with most of our stuff packed away into boxes and bins when the governor closed the schools, then the stores, then the state.
Stay at home? I remembered shouting at my parents with an anger completely uncharacteristic of me. How do you stay at home when we have no home? I d burst into tears and ran up to my room before they could answer.
Mom and Dad had talked late into the night, their furtive whispers filling the house. I could hear them wondering what to do, wondering if they were making the right decision, wondering how we d get through any of this.
Less than twenty-four hours later, everything was decided for us. The hospital in Michigan wanted both Mom and Dad working there. Pronto.
In the blink of an eye we were supplied letters certifying that my parents were essential, pledging that our movers were essential, swearing up and down that the new house was essential.
Everything was essential but my misery.
The light is different here, I said, feeling both sets of their eyes on me now, their concern as heavy as the semi truck parked along our drive.
Our lane, as my father insisted calling it.
Back in Memphis we hadn t had a driveway. Now we had a lane. Of our own.
A lane and a garden and a little old supply shed, painted barn red and outfitted with scalloped white trim.
There was no way to deny it. We were country now.&#
But then COVID-19 broke out and literally everything fell apart.
I didn t finish the school year. I didn t get one last concert or film festival, no last Grizz game or barbecue nachos, no cupcakes from Muddy s bakery.
I didn t even get to say goodbye.
Our house--our old house--already had an offer on it, with most of our stuff packed away into boxes and bins when the governor closed the schools, then the stores, then the state.
Stay at home? I remembered shouting at my parents with an anger completely uncharacteristic of me. How do you stay at home when we have no home? I d burst into tears and ran up to my room before they could answer.
Mom and Dad had talked late into the night, their furtive whispers filling the house. I could hear them wondering what to do, wondering if they were making the right decision, wondering how we d get through any of this.
Less than twenty-four hours later, everything was decided for us. The hospital in Michigan wanted both Mom and Dad working there. Pronto.
In the blink of an eye we were supplied letters certifying that my parents were essential, pledging that our movers were essential, swearing up and down that the new house was essential.
Everything was essential but my misery.
The light is different here, I said, feeling both sets of their eyes on me now, their concern as heavy as the semi truck parked along our drive.
Our lane, as my father insisted calling it.
Back in Memphis we hadn t had a driveway. Now we had a lane. Of our own.
A lane and a garden and a little old supply shed, painted barn red and outfitted with scalloped white trim.
There was no way to deny it. We were country now.&#
... weniger
Autoren-Porträt von Erin A. Craig, Auriane Desombre, Erin Hahn, Bill Konigsberg, Rachael Lippincott, Brittney Morris, Sajni Patel, Natasha Preston, Jennifer Yen
CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Erin A. Craig, New York Times best-selling author of House of Salt and Sorrows; Auriane Desombre, author of I Think I Love You; Erin Hahn, author of You'd Be Mine; Bill Konigsberg, Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Literary award-winning author of six books for teens, including The Music of What Happens; Rachael Lippincott, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Five Feet Apart; Brittney Morris, author of Slay; Sajni Patel, author of The Trouble with Hating You; Natasha Preston, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Cellar and The Twin; and Jennifer Yen, author of A Taste for Love.
Produktdetails
- Autoren: Erin A. Craig , Auriane Desombre , Erin Hahn , Bill Konigsberg , Rachael Lippincott , Brittney Morris , Sajni Patel , Natasha Preston , Jennifer Yen
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 12 Jahre
- 2020, 288 Seiten, Maße: 13,9 x 20,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Delacorte Press
- ISBN-10: 0593375297
- ISBN-13: 9780593375297
- Erscheinungsdatum: 20.10.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"From a cute pizza delivery boy to TikTok crushes, daily walks to a homemade mask business, Together, Apart offers a lovely look at what the pandemic experience is like for teens." --Book Riot"The stories impeccably capture the teens fears, anger, and anxieties around the pandemic balanced by adorable meet-cutes and the sweetness of early getting-to-know-you attraction." --Kirkus Reviews
Cleverly plotted, with sympathetic characters, the stories are a ray of sunshine in these dark days. --Booklist
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