New PDF release: Hold Still

By Nina LaCour

ISBN-10: 0525421556

ISBN-13: 9780525421559

An arresting tale approximately beginning over after a friend’s suicide, froma step forward new voice in YA fiction pricey caitlin, there are such a lot of issues that i need so badly to inform you yet i simply can’t. Devastating, hopeful, hopeless, playful . . . in phrases and illustrations, Ingrid left at the back of a painful farewell in her magazine for Caitlin. Now Caitlin is left on my own, via loss and via selection, suffering to discover renewed desire within the wake of her most sensible friend’s suicide. With the aid of kinfolk and newfound acquaintances, Caitlin will come upon past love, develop her horizons, and begin to gain that precise friendship didn’t die with Ingrid. And the magazine which as soon as appeared in basic terms to chronicle Ingrid’s descent into melancholy, turns into the software in which Caitlin once more reaches out to all those that enjoyed Ingrid—and Caitlin herselfA dialogue consultant to carry nonetheless by way of Nina LaCour (Easy Print model)

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I set it down and stare at the wet circle it made on the paper place mat. “Guess,” I say. She doesn’t. I trace the circle with my finger. “Come on. ” I roll my eyes. ” Mom’s cheery mood disintegrates. “Caitlin,” she says. She says my name all the time, but this is different. It’s all disappointed-sounding, like I had a choice, like there were a million kids lined up to eat with me and I was like, Sorry, I’d rather eat by myself. ” I snap, and she doesn’t say anything else. After about two seconds of waiting, the waiter comes with our food.

I break a short nail on my right hand even shorter, but I manage to pull off a small piece of wood. I drop it into my cupped palm and pry off another. All last night, I listened to a recording of my voice reciting biology facts on repeat. It plays back in my head now, a sound track for catastrophe, and drowns everything out. If a brown-eyed man and a brown-eyed woman have a child, the child will probably have brown eyes. But if both the father and the mother have a gene for blue eyes, it’s possible that their child could have blue eyes.

She looks more optimistic today, calling kids over to her desk, one by one. I’m in the far right corner, alone, of course. She starts with Akiko, who is sitting in the front left of the room. I assume that she hopes she’ll run out of time before my turn comes. I lay my head on my desk and shut my eyes. Forty minutes later I wake up. Everything is muffled, but it only seems like that because I’m disoriented and kind of embarrassed that I actually fell asleep. When I lift my head and see that nothing new is happening, that everyone is still sitting together at their tables and Ms.

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