No and Me by Delphine de Vigan

No and Me



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No and Me Delphine de Vigan
Language: English
Page: 256
Format: pdf
ISBN: 1599904799, 9781599904795
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books

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Winner of the 2008 Prix de Libraries (Booksellers’ Prize), this moving French import begins when 13-year-old Lou, a ferociously shy and intelligent Parisian, declares an unusual class project: “I’m going to follow the journey of a homeless girl.” Her teacher’s enthusiasm forces Lou to follow her idea through, and in a train station she meets 18-year-old No. Lou feels like an outsider even at home, where “sadness clings to the walls” after her baby sister’s sudden death and her mother’s subsequent breakdown. With No she finds a surprising, true friendship, and she convinces her parents to allow No to move in. Writing in Lou’s strong, convincing voice, de Vigan poses the largest existential questions about meaning, purpose, and the possibilities and limits of saving another life. Subtle, authentic details; memorable characters (including Lou’s older friend, Lucas); and realistic ambiguities in each scene ground the story’s weighty themes, and teens will easily recognize Lou’s fragile shifts between heartbreak, bitter disillusionment, and quiet, miraculous hope. Grades 8-11. --Gillian Engberg

Review

"Well-structured, with moments of tenderness and truth about family and home, inadequate parents and neglected children, No and Me is honest (as revealing and insightful about Lou and home life as it is about No and homelessness) but also at least partially reassuring. Lou's 'large-scale experiment against fate' might not go quite according to plan, but de Vigan shows that things really can change, albeit not always in the ways we've anticipated, and not always in ways we can control."
— The Independent (UK)
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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