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    Picture Me Gone

    Author Meg Rosoff
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    Penguin Young Readers | Speak
    On sale Oct 03, 2013 | 272 Pages | 9780698135383
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    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The award-winning author of Now I Live Now presents a gorgeous and unforgettable page-turner of a novel about the relationship between parents and children, love and loss.

    “A brilliant depiction of the complexity of human relationships in a story that's at once contemplative and suspenseful.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

    “The author accurately captures this mature adolescent's view of adults without condescension or judgment, a feat worthy of praise.”—School Library Journal, starred review

    Mila has an exceptional talent for reading a room—sensing hidden facts and unspoken emotions from clues that others overlook. So when her father’s best friend, Matthew, goes missing from his upstate New York home, Mila and her beloved father travel from London to find him.

    She collects information about Matthew from his belongings, from his wife and baby, from the dog he left behind and from the ghosts of his past—slowly piecing together the story everyone else has missed. But just when she’s closest to solving the mystery, a shocking betrayal calls into question her trust in the one person she thought she could read best.
    MEG ROSOFF grew up in a suburb of Boston and moved to London in 1989. She spent fifteen years working in advertising before writing her first YA novel, How I Live Now, which has sold more than a million copies in thirty-six territories. It won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Michael L. Printz Award in the US and was made into a feature film. Her subsequent nine novels have been awarded or shortlisted for, among others, the Carnegie Medal and the National Book Award. She lives in London with her husband, the painter Paul Hamlyn. View titles by Meg Rosoff
    “A brilliant depiction of the complexity of human relationships in a story that’s at once contemplative and suspenseful.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

    “Rosoff, who writes each of her books differently (and often brilliantly), shapes this story as much by form and intuitions as by events . . . There’s no condescension or compromise to the obvious audience either in premise or prose. It’s another choice, one that allows the book to offer its many insights on the human condition to a widespread readership.”—Booklist, starred review

    “This thought-provoking coming-of-age story requires that readers be at least as mature as Mila as she confronts unpleasant truths . . . Mila’s sharp observations of the people she meets and the winter landscape add a fresh, poetic aura to her discoveries and the novel as a whole.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

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    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The award-winning author of Now I Live Now presents a gorgeous and unforgettable page-turner of a novel about the relationship between parents and children, love and loss.

    “A brilliant depiction of the complexity of human relationships in a story that's at once contemplative and suspenseful.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

    “The author accurately captures this mature adolescent's view of adults without condescension or judgment, a feat worthy of praise.”—School Library Journal, starred review

    Mila has an exceptional talent for reading a room—sensing hidden facts and unspoken emotions from clues that others overlook. So when her father’s best friend, Matthew, goes missing from his upstate New York home, Mila and her beloved father travel from London to find him.

    She collects information about Matthew from his belongings, from his wife and baby, from the dog he left behind and from the ghosts of his past—slowly piecing together the story everyone else has missed. But just when she’s closest to solving the mystery, a shocking betrayal calls into question her trust in the one person she thought she could read best.

    Author

    MEG ROSOFF grew up in a suburb of Boston and moved to London in 1989. She spent fifteen years working in advertising before writing her first YA novel, How I Live Now, which has sold more than a million copies in thirty-six territories. It won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Michael L. Printz Award in the US and was made into a feature film. Her subsequent nine novels have been awarded or shortlisted for, among others, the Carnegie Medal and the National Book Award. She lives in London with her husband, the painter Paul Hamlyn. View titles by Meg Rosoff

    Praise

    “A brilliant depiction of the complexity of human relationships in a story that’s at once contemplative and suspenseful.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

    “Rosoff, who writes each of her books differently (and often brilliantly), shapes this story as much by form and intuitions as by events . . . There’s no condescension or compromise to the obvious audience either in premise or prose. It’s another choice, one that allows the book to offer its many insights on the human condition to a widespread readership.”—Booklist, starred review

    “This thought-provoking coming-of-age story requires that readers be at least as mature as Mila as she confronts unpleasant truths . . . Mila’s sharp observations of the people she meets and the winter landscape add a fresh, poetic aura to her discoveries and the novel as a whole.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

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