Agent: Faye Bender, Faye Bender Literary Agency.
That said, this memorable story about female friendships, silly bets, different kinds of love, and bad decisions is authentic in detail and emotion-another Stead hallmark. Keeping readers off-balance is a Stead hallmark, but it doesn’t work quite as successfully here as it did in When You Reach Me and Liar and Spy, perhaps because the mystery narrator and the people she interacts with aren’t as fleshed out as everyone else. Then there is an unnamed high school–age character, whose second-person chapters take place on Valentine’s Day, months in the future. Meanwhile, Bridge has a new friend, Sherm his share of the story unspools in letters to his estranged grandfather, who left Sherm’s beloved Nonna after 50 years of marriage.
A tight triumvirate, Bridge and her friends Tab and Em have sworn upon a Twinkie never to fight, but now Em’s curves are attracting boy interest (and a request for a risqué photo), while Tab’s attentions are turning toward feminism and social justice. The author keeps all her balls in the air until she catches them safely with ineffable grace.Bridget Barsamian accidentally skated into traffic at age eight, and this brush with death has made her an uncommonly introspective seventh-grader. that escalate in ways that can seem life-shattering to a 13-year-old. ★ “ filled with humor, delightful coincidences, and the sorts of things. ★ “This memorable story about female friendships, silly bets, different kinds of love, and bad decisions is authentic in detail and emotion-another Stead hallmark.” Winsome, bighearted, and altogether rewarding.” Goodbye Stranger is the story of Bridge, a seventh-grader, and her best friends Tabitha and Emily, who all made a vow back in fourth grade to never, ever fight which proves difficult when their lives seem to be moving in different directions. ★ “Stead shows how strongly love of all kinds can smooth the juddering path toward adulthood. ★ “ captures the stomach-churning moments of a misstep or an unplanned betrayal and reworks these events with grace, humor, and polish into possibilities for kindness and redemption. ★ “The handing-down of advice and wisdom from older girls and women is a welcome theme throughout the book and far too rare in female coming-of-age stories it’s just one of many reasons this astonishingly profound novel is not your average middle-school friendship tale” ASIN: B00PEPO9IU Edition language: English Average rating: 4.24 (528 ratings.
This novel not only sensitively explores togetherness, aloneness, betrayal and love, it also acknowledges something crucial to the business of growing up: how anyone’s personal “we of me” might look different a little while from now, and later still, different again.” Editions for Goodbye Stranger: 0385743173 (Hardcover published in 2015), (Kindle Edition published in 2015), (Paperback published in 2017).
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