And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard

And We Stay

Jenny Hubbard

Random House Children's Books · Paperback · May 12, 2015

A Michael L. Printz Honor Award Winner in the vein of This is Where It Ends “A gentle, lyrical story of incomprehensible sorrow faced with quiet courage.”—ELIZABETH WEIN, New York Times bestselling author “Hubbard treats tragedy and new beginnings with a skilled, delicate hand.”—JOHN COREY WHALEY, author of Where Things Come Back, winner of the Michael L. Printz Award Senior Paul Wagoner walks into his school with a stolen gun, threatens his girlfriend, Emily Beam, and then takes his own life.

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Who it’s for
A lyrical story holds grief and new beginnings in the same careful light.
Themes
Grief and guilt, Healing and hope, Friendship and young love
Pacing
Reflective

About this book

A Michael L. Printz Honor Award Winner in the vein of This is Where It Ends “A gentle, lyrical story of incomprehensible sorrow faced with quiet courage.”—ELIZABETH WEIN, New York Times bestselling author “Hubbard treats tragedy and new beginnings with a skilled, delicate hand.”—JOHN COREY WHALEY, author of Where Things Come Back, winner of the Michael L. Printz Award Senior Paul Wagoner walks into his school with a stolen gun, threatens his girlfriend, Emily Beam, and then takes his own life.

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Soon after, angry and guilt-ridden Emily is sent to a boarding school in Amherst, Massachusetts, where two quirky fellow students and the spirit of Emily Dickinson offer helping hands. But it is up to Emily Beam to heal her own damaged self, to find the good behind the bad, hope inside the despair, and springtime under the snow. A Boston Globe Best YA Novel of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Tayshas High School Reading List Selection A North Carolina Young Adult book Award Nominee * "As graceful as a feather drifting down, this lyrical story delivers a deep journey of healing on a tragic theme.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred * "And We Stay is a little gem of a book. . . . there is certainly something for anyone looking for a good read with a strong, believable female lead who is working her hardest to overcome tragedy.”—School Library Journal, Starred “Hubbard’s writing is elegant and emotional.”—Publisher’s Weekly “This novel is accomplished, polished, and mixes prose and poetry to stunning effect.”—Booklist “Hubbard . . . captures perfectly the turbulence of young love, the bonds of friendship, and the push-and-pull dynamic between teens and adults.”—VOYA

Quiet Ways Forward

A lyrical story holds grief and new beginnings in the same careful light.

Come here for

  • A young woman’s hard, gradual work of healing
  • Friendship, young love, and poetry woven into an emotional read

Expect

  • A delicate approach to tragedy, without easy answers
  • Prose and poetry sharing the page

Where it sits

Teen Suicide77%
Death & Grief for Teens60%
YA Romance49%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Romance
  • Friendship for Teens
  • Teen Suicide
Authors
Jenny Hubbard
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Published
May 12, 2015
Format
Paperback
Theme
Grief and guilt · Healing and hope · Friendship and young love
Reading lane
YA Romance