Spontaneous / Aaron Starmer.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : Harper Collins Publishers, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 354 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeAudience: ChildrenISBN: 9781460753149Subject(s): High school seniors -- Fiction | Combustion, Spontaneous human -- Fiction | High school seniors -- New Jersey -- Fiction | Teenagers -- Fiction | Combustion, Spontaneous -- Fiction | Humorous stories | Combustion, Spontaneous human -- Young adult fiction | Young adult fiction | High school seniors | Combustion, Spontaneous human | High school seniors -- Young adult fiction | Young adult fiction | High school seniors | Combustion, Spontaneous human | Combustion, Spontaneous human -- Juvenile fiction | High school seniors -- Juvenile fiction | New Jersey -- Young adult fiction | New Jersey -- Juvenile fiction | New JerseyGenre/Form: Young adult fiction | Teen fiction | Young adult fiction | Humorous fiction. | Young adult fiction. | Young adult fiction | Fiction. | Juvenile works. | Young adult works. | Fiction. DDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: A darkly funny and spectacularly original exploration of friendship, goodbyes--and spontaneous combustion. Mara Carlyle's senior year is going as normally as could be expected, until- wa-bam!-fellow senior Katelyn Ogden explodes during third period pre-calc. Katelyn is the first, but she won't be the last senior to blow up without warning or explanation. With the whole country watching, the FBI soon rolls into Mara's suburban New Jersey hometown and the search is on for answers. Whip-smart and blunt, Mara narrates the end of their world as she knows it while trying to make it to graduation in one piece. It's an explosive year punctuated by romance, quarantine, lifelong friendship, hallucinogenic mushrooms, bloggers, ice-cream trucks, "Snooze ButtonTM" and the filthiest language you've ever heard fromthe president of the United States. Aaron Starmer defies every rule in Spontaneous, but beneath the outrageous is a ridiculously funny, super honest, and truly moving exemplar of the absurd and raw truths of being a teenager in the twenty-first century-and the heartache of saying good-bye.
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A novel about growing up... and blowing up. -- from the cover.
Young adult fiction.
A darkly funny and spectacularly original exploration of friendship, goodbyes--and spontaneous combustion. Mara Carlyle's senior year is going as normally as could be expected, until- wa-bam!-fellow senior Katelyn Ogden explodes during third period pre-calc. Katelyn is the first, but she won't be the last senior to blow up without warning or explanation. With the whole country watching, the FBI soon rolls into Mara's suburban New Jersey hometown and the search is on for answers. Whip-smart and blunt, Mara narrates the end of their world as she knows it while trying to make it to graduation in one piece. It's an explosive year punctuated by romance, quarantine, lifelong friendship, hallucinogenic mushrooms, bloggers, ice-cream trucks, "Snooze ButtonTM" and the filthiest language you've ever heard fromthe president of the United States. Aaron Starmer defies every rule in Spontaneous, but beneath the outrageous is a ridiculously funny, super honest, and truly moving exemplar of the absurd and raw truths of being a teenager in the twenty-first century-and the heartache of saying good-bye.
For students ages 9-12.
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