The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead (English) Hardcover Boo

Description: The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead Despite her parents divorce, her fathers coming out as gay, and his plans to marry his boyfriend, ten-year-old Bea is reassured by her parents unconditional love, excited about getting a stepsister, and haunted by something she did last summer at her fathers lake house. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description EIGHT STARRED REVIEWS! The reassuring book kids and families need right now."An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love." --R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of WonderAt a time when everything is changing for Bea and her family, the important things will always stay the same. A soon-to-be classic by the Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach Me.After her parents divorce, Beas life became different in many ways. But she can always look back at the list she keeps in her green notebook to remember the things that will stay the same. The first and most important: Mom and Dad will always love Bea, and each other. When Dad tells Bea that he and his boyfriend, Jesse, are getting married, Bea is thrilled. Bea loves Jesse, and when he and Dad get married, shell finally (finally!) have what shes always wanted--a sister. Even though shes never met Jesses daughter, Sonia, Bea is sure that theyll be "just like sisters anywhere." As the wedding day approaches, Bea will learn that making a new family brings questions, surprises, and joy, and readers will discover why the New York Times called Rebecca Stead a "writer of great feeling.""An undeniably beautiful book." --The New York Times"No author writing today observes young lives with more clarity, tenderness, and grace." --Newbery Medalist Katherine Applegate, author of The One and Only Ivan"Stead truly understands the inner life of kids." --Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, author of Hello, Universe and You Go First Author Biography REBECCA STEAD is the author of When You Reach Me, which was a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Newbery Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction, and Liar & Spy, which was also a New York Times bestseller, won the Guardian Prize for Childrens Fiction, and was on multiple state master lists and best of the year lists. Her most recent book, Goodbye Stranger, was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book for Fiction and a New York Times bestseller. She is also the author of First Light, which was nominated for many state awards. She lives in New York City with her family. Visit her online at rebeccasteadbooks.com and on Twitter @rebstead. Review An NPR Best Book of the YearPraise for The List of Things That Will Not Change:"A fabric woven of exactly the right threads.... An undeniably beautiful book." —The New York Times … "Uplifting without sentimentality, timely not trendy, and utterly engaging." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review… "An emotional character journey from a middle-grade master." —Booklist, starred review… "An affecting story of significant middle grade change." —Publishers Weekly, starred review … "The angst and worries that middle grade readers experience are brought to life through Beas authentic voice in this must-read title." —School Library Journal, starred review… "The strength of this novel lies in Steads authentic, respectful, low-key approach to the emotional life of a ten-year-old as recalled from the perspective of her slightly older self." —The Horn Book, starred review … "Ultimately, Bea survives, thrives, and grows as love remains constant but her world gets bigger, and readers negotiating their own changing lives will relate to her challenge and applaud her triumph." —The Bulletin, starred review… "Stead masterfully explores the internal life of a girl going through both extraordinary and run-of-the-mill trials in a way that tells readers they are not alone in their complicated, contradictory feelings about the world." —Shelf Awareness, starred review… "A dazzling middle grade novel from Newbery Medalist Rebecca Stead." —BookPage, starred review "An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love." —R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of Wonder "No author writing today observes young lives with more clarity, tenderness, and grace than the one and only Rebecca Stead." —Newbery Medalist Katherine Applegate, author of The One and Only Ivan "Stead truly understands the inner life of kids." —Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, author of Hello, Universe and You Go First"From the moon, the wedding, and the cake, to Beas mind, Rebecca has captured everything so completely, so beautifully. Truly a wonderful work." —Patricia Reilly Giff, author of the Newbery Honor winners Lilys Crossing and Pictures of Hollis Woods "This is a story of love that enlarges, even though it is not always easy. We cheer for and are cheered by Beas quiet triumphs because they are triumphs of the heart." —Gary D. Schmidt, author of The Wednesday Wars and Pay Attention, Carter Jones "Rebecca Steads writing is always infused with the tender minutiae of being alive, with the price we have to pay to be human. This book, along with its perfect title, is Typical Rebecca Stead. And thats a heartfelt compliment." —Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963 and Bud, Not Buddy Review Quote Praise for The List of Things That Will Not Change "From the moon, the wedding, and the cake, to Beas mind, Rebecca has captured everything so completely, so beautifully. Truly a wonderful work. " -- Patricia Reilly Giff, author of the Newbery Honor winners Lilys Crossing and Pictures of Hollis Woods " This is a story of love that enlarges, even though it is not always easy. We cheer for and are cheered by Beas quiet triumphs because they are triumphs of the heart ." -- Gary D. Schmidt, author of The Wednesday Wars and Pay Attention, Carter Jones "Rebecca Steads writing is always infused with the tender minutiae of being alive , with the price we have to pay to be human. This book, along with its perfect title, is Typical Rebecca Stead. And thats a heartfelt compliment." --Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis , author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963 and Bud, Not Buddy "Uplifting without sentimentality, timely not trendy, and utterly engaging. " --Kirkus , starred review "An emotional character journey from a middle-grade master ." -- Booklist, starred review " An affecting story of significant middle grade change." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "The strength of this novel lies in Steads authentic, respectful, low-key approach to the emotional life of a ten-year-old as recalled from the perspective of her slightly older self." -- The Horn Book , starred review Excerpt from Book Angelica The summer I turned ten, my cousin Angelica fell from the sleeping loft at our familys lake cabin. Uncle Frank says her head missed the woodstove by four inches. She hit the floor with a bad sound, a whump. Then we didnt hear anything. No crying. No yelling. Nothing. Until, finally, there was the sound of Angelica trying to breathe. Dad got to her first. Aunt Ess, Angelicas mom, called from her room. "What was that? Dan? What was that?" He answered, "Its Angelica--she fell, but shes okay. She got the wind knocked out of her, but I think shes okay." From the loft, I saw Angelica sit up, slowly. Dad was rubbing her back in circles. Uncle Frank and Aunt Ess came crashing in from their bedroom, and then Angelica started crying these short, jagged cries. The next morning, Uncle Frank said that if her head had hit the woodstove, Angelica could have died. By that time, she looked normal. She was wearing her turquoise two-piece bathing suit and chewing her eggs with her lips sealed tight. No bruises, even--she landed on her back, Dad said, which is what knocked her wind out. That summer, my parents had been divorced for two years already, but I still thought about when Mom used to come to the lake cabin with us. I could picture her red bathing suit on the clothesline. I remembered which end of the table she sat at for dinner. I remembered her, sitting on the dock with Aunt Ess, talking. Mom and Dad told me about the divorce at a "family meeting." I had just turned eight. Wed never had a family meeting before. I sat on the couch, between them. They didnt look happy, and I suddenly got worried that something was wrong with our cat, Red. That they were going to tell me he was dying. A boy in my class that year had a cat who died. But that wasnt it. Dad put his arm around me and said that some big things were going to change. Mom squeezed my hand. Then Dad said they were getting divorced. Soon he was going to move out of our apartment, into a different one. I said, "But Im staying here, right?" I looked at Mom. Dad said I was going to have two homes, and two rooms, instead of one. I was going to live in both places. I could think of only one person in my class whose parents were divorced: Carolyn Shattuck. Carolyn had a navy-blue sweatshirt with one big pocket in front. Until the family meeting, I had wanted one just like it. I said, "What about Red?" Mom said Red would be staying with her. "With us--you and me." You and me. That made me feel awful. Because back then I couldnt think of Mom and me without Dad. Dad said, "Things are changing, Bea. But theres still a lot you can count on. Okay? Things that wont ever change." This was when they gave me the green spiral notebook and the green pen. (My favorite color is green.) In the notebook, they had made a list. The list was called Things That Will Not Change. I started reading: 1. Mom loves you more than anything, always. 2. Dad loves you more than anything, always. I skipped to the end, uncapped the green pen, and wrote: 7. Red will stay with me and Mom. I said, "I want my rainbow to stay here, too. Over my bed." Dad painted that rainbow, right on the wall, when I was really little. Mom said, "Yes, of course, sweetie. Your rainbow will stay right where it is." I wrote that down, too. Number 8. Dad moved into a different apartment a month later. I go back and forth between them. Heres how it works: MONDAY is a DAD day. TUESDAY is a MOM day. WEDNESDAY is a DAD day. THURSDAY is a MOM day. FRIDAY is part of THE WEEKEND. THE WEEKEND is FRIDAY and SATURDAY. THE WEEKEND alternates. SUNDAY is SUNDAY. SUNDAY is its OWN DAY. SUNDAY alternates. Before Dad moved out, I thought of the weekend as Saturday and Sunday. Now I think of the weekend as Friday and Saturday. And I think of Sunday as SUNDAY. Right after the family meeting, I found Red asleep in the laundry basket and carried him to my room, where I opened my new notebook. I looked at the list of Things That Will Not Change. My parents had written: 1. Mom loves you more than anything, always. 2. Dad loves you more than anything, always. 3. Mom and Dad love each other, but in a different way. 4. You will always have a home with each of us. 5. Your homes will never be far apart. 6. We are still a family, but in a different way. After that, I carried the green spiral notebook everywhere. I asked a lot of questions. I used the green pen. Our first summer at the lake cabin without Mom, there were Mom-shaped reminders everywhere, like her blue Sorry! pieces and the chipped yellow bowl she always used for tomato salad. The Mom-reminders were all over the place, but I was the only one who saw them. That summer, Dad explained to everyone at the cabin--Uncle Frank and Aunt Ess, and my cousins, James, Angelica, and Jojo--that he is gay. I already knew. My parents had told me at the one and only family meeting, when they gave me the notebook. "Will you be gay forever now?" I asked Dad at the meeting. Yes, he told me. He would always be attracted to some men the same way that some men were attracted to some women. Its the way hes felt since he was little. I uncapped my green pen and wrote it down right away on the list of Things That Will Not Change. Its number nine: Dad is gay. After Dad explained about being gay to everyone at the lake cabin, he asked if anyone had questions. No one did. Then Dad and Uncle Frank walked down to the dock and sat with their feet in the water. I watched from the porch, where I was sitting on the edge of Uncle Franks favorite chair. After a while, they stood up and jumped in the lake. They were splashing each other like little kids, laughing. I remember being surprised, because Uncle Frank never swims. He always says the water in that lake is too cold. Most of the time, he just sits on the porch, in his chair, in the sun. "So, you live with your mom now?" my cousin James asked me that night in the sleeping loft. James is four years older than I am. I was eight that first summer without Mom, so he was twelve. I explained to him about the days of the week. When I was done, we got into our beds, and Angelica tickled my arm for a while. (Usually, I tickled her arm, and then she would say she was too tired to do mine.) Right around then, James started calling me "Ping-Pong." He had really weird nicknames for his little sisters--he called Angelica "BD," which was for "bottom drawer," because shed once stepped into an open dresser drawer to reach something on a shelf and fallen over, cutting her lip. And James called Jojo "Speaker," short for "speakerphone," because when she was a baby she used to cry if she heard Uncle Franks voice but couldnt see him anywhere. The names were kind of mean, but I had secretly wanted a James nickname for a long time. I couldnt remember doing anything Ping-Pong-related that James might be making fun of me for, but I didnt care. I actually liked the name Ping-Pong, until Aunt Ess heard him down at our dock and told him to march himself up to the porch so they could "have a chat." "Aunt Ess, I dont mind it!" I called after them. But she ignored me. "You mean you like being a Ping-Pong ball?" Angelica said. Angelica is a year and a half older than me. We were trying to teach Jojo, even though she was only five, to play volleyball on the little beach where we kept the boats pulled up next to our dock. Now Angelica was tapping the dirty volleyball with the tips of her fingers. She had it trapped between a hip and an elbow. "What?" I felt my eyes narrowing. I hated it when I didnt understand something right away. "You go back and forth, right? From your moms to your dads? Like a Ping-Pong ball." She smiled. I was on top of her in three steps. First, I yanked her ponytail, and then I smacked that ball off her hip, down to the dirt. "Bea!" Aunt Ess shouted down from the porch. I guess shed been yelling at James and watching over us at the same time. Angelica just stood there smiling. I stomped to the water and floated on my back with my ears under the water so that I couldnt hear. Angelica was stuck waiting for me to get out because we were swim buddies. James didnt call me Ping-Pong again. Or anything else. When my parents were together, two weeks at the lake with my cousins was never enough for me. After the divorce, it felt about a week too long. It felt too long the summer I was eight, when my cousin Jojo was finally old enough to stay up and play Sorry! with us after dinner. Green is Jojos favorite color, too, so I let her have my pieces, and I took Moms blue ones. It felt too long the summer I was nine. That was the summer the chipped yellow bowl broke. I dont know how it happened; I just saw the pieces in the garbage. It felt especially too long the summer I was ten. The summer Angelica fell. When those two weeks were finally over, I was in the back seat of our car even before Rocco, our dog, could hurl himself in there Details ISBN1101938102 Author Rebecca Stead Short Title LIST OF THINGS THAT WILL NOT C Pages 224 Audience Age 8-12 Publisher Wendy Lamb Books Language English ISBN-10 1101938102 ISBN-13 9781101938102 DEWEY FIC Year 2020 Publication Date 2020-04-07 Imprint Wendy Lamb Books Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2020-04-07 NZ Release Date 2020-04-07 US Release Date 2020-04-07 UK Release Date 2020-04-07 Format Hardcover Audience Children / Juvenile We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:141731488;

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