
The Great American Whatever
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers · Print & ebook · March 29, 2016
A Young Adult pick for readers exploring The Great American Whatever.
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- Who it’s for
- A quick-witted voice meets first love, grief, and the uneasy business of imagining what comes next.
- Genres
- YA Romance - LGBTQ+, Coming of Age, Funny YA
- Published
- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, March 29, 2016
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From the award-winning author of Five, Six, Seven, Nate! and Better Nate Than Ever comes “a Holden Caulfield for a new generation” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Quinn Roberts is a sixteen-year-old smart aleck and Hollywood hopeful whose only worry used to be writing convincing dialogue for the movies he made with his sister Annabeth.
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Of course, that was all before—before Quinn stopped going to school, before his mom started sleeping on the sofa…and before the car accident that changed everything. Enter: Geoff, Quinn’s best friend who insists it’s time that Quinn came out—at least from hibernation. One haircut later, Geoff drags Quinn to his first college party, where instead of nursing his pain, he meets a guy—okay, a hot guy—and falls, hard. What follows is an upside-down week in which Quinn begins imagining his future as a screenplay that might actually have a happily-ever-after ending—if, that is, he can finally step back into the starring role of his own life story.
Wit and What-Ifs
A quick-witted voice meets first love, grief, and the uneasy business of imagining what comes next.
Come here for
- Smart-aleck humor with a screenwriter’s eye
- First-love jitters alongside grief and the possibility of moving forward
Expect
- A grieving teenager’s voice finding room for jokes and possibility
- Romance and coming-of-age feeling with some sharp edges
Where it sits
| YA Romance - LGBTQ+ | 62% |
|---|---|
| Coming of Age | 33% |
| Funny YA | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA LGBTQ+
- Film & Movies for Teens
- Friendship for Teens
- Authors
- Tim Federle, Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Published
- March 29, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- YA LGBTQ+