The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle

The Great American Whatever

Tim Federle, Simon & Schuster Audio

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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About this book

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 Age33%
Funny YA32%

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+