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Optimists die first : life ahead, proceed with caution / Susin Nielsen.

Summary:

Award-winning author Susin Nielsen has written a laugh-out-loud and heartrending novel for fans of Robyn Schneider's Extraordinary Means and Cammie McGovern's Say What You Will. Beware: Life ahead. Sixteen-year-old Petula de Wilde is anything but wild. A former crafting fiend with a happy life, Petula shut herself off from the world after a family tragedy. She sees danger in all the ordinary things, like crossing the street, a bug bite, or a germy handshake. She knows: life is out to get you. The worst part of her week is her comically lame mandatory art therapy class with a small group of fellow misfits. Then a new boy, Jacob, appears at school and in her therapy group. He seems so normal and confident, though he has a prosthetic arm; and soon he teams up with Petula on a hilarious project, gradually inspiring her to let go of some of her fears. But as the two grow closer, a hidden truth behind why he's in the group could derail them, unless Petula takes a huge risk. . .

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781524723033
  • ISBN: 1524723037
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (5 hr., 1 min., 39 sec.)) : digital.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: New York : Listening Library (Audio), 2017.

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Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Julia Whelan.
Target Audience Note:
9-12.
Source of Description Note:
Hard copy version record.
Subject: Fear > Fiction.
Emotional problems of teenagers > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Emotional problems of teenagers.
Fear.
Friendship.
Genre: Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Downloadable audio books.

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