Description
| Product ID: | 9781529058185 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Slingshot |
| Authors: | Author: Mercedes Helnwein |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories, Romance & relationships stories (Children's / Teenage) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating True love has the worst aim in this darkly funny tale of a boy and a girl who find each other and then screw it all up. <p>Acidly funny and compulsively readable, Mercedes Helnwein’s debut novel <i>Slingshot</i> is a story about two people finding each other and then screwing it all up. See also: soulmate, friendship, stupidity, sex, bad poetry, and all the indignities of being in love for the first time.<br><br>Grace Welles had resigned herself to the particular loneliness of being fifteen and stuck at a third-tier boarding school in the swamps of Florida, when she accidentally saves the new kid in her class from being beaten up. With a single aim of a slingshot, the monotonous mathematics of her life are obliterated forever…because now there is a boy in it that she never asked for. Wade Scholfield.<br><br>With Wade, Grace discovers a new way to exist. School rules are optional, life is bizarrely perfect, and conversations about wormholes can lead to make-out sessions that disrupt any logical stream of thought.<br><br>So why does Grace crush Wade’s heart into a million tiny pieces? And what are her options when she finally realizes that 1. The universe doesn’t revolve around her, and 2. Wade has been hiding a dark secret? Is Grace the only person unhinged enough to save him?<br><br>Eleanor and Park meets Ladybird in this outstanding debut novel.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan Children's Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-04-29 |
