Image
20460
Age Range
15 - 18
Genre
Page Count
368
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Grade Level
10th - 12th
ISBN
9780374303587
Themes

Ready to Fall

Written by Marcella Pixley
When Max Friedman’s mother dies of cancer, instead of facing his loss, Max imagines that her tumor has taken up residence in his brain. It's a terrible tenant―isolating him from family, distracting him in school, and taunting him mercilessly about his manhood. With the tumor in charge, Max implodes, slipping farther and farther away from reality. Finally, Max is sent to the artsy, off-beat Baldwin School to regain his footing. He joins a group of theater misfits in a steam-punk production of Hamlet where he becomes friends with a group of misfits who help him face the truth.
Age Range
15 - 18
Genre
Page Count
368
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Grade Level
10th - 12th
ISBN
9780374303587
Themes