All Alone in the Universe - Softcover

Lynne Rae Perkins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0439247594 ISBN 13: 9780439247597

Publisher: Scholastic Inc., 2000

Synopsis

"Before last summer Maureen and I were best friends....At least I think we were. I don't know what happened exactly. As some people who get hit by trucks sometimes say,'I didn't see anything coming.'" When her best friend since the third grade starts acting as though Debbie doesn't exist, Debbie finds out the hard way that life can be a lonesome place. But in the end the heroine of this wryly funny coming-of-age story--a girl who lives in a house covered with stuff that is supposed to look like bricks but is just a fake brick pattern--discovers that even the hourly tragedies of junior high school can have silver linings, just as a house covered with Insul-Brick can protect a real home. This first novel shines--fun, engrossing, bittersweet, and wonderfully unpredictable.01-02 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist (Gr 6-8) 01-02 William Allen White Children's Book Award Masterlist 00-01 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Bk Award Masterlist 2000 Notable Children's Books (ALA) 00 Riverbank Review Magazine's Children's Books of Distinction Award Nominations

About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0439247594
• ISBN 13: 9780439247597
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 140