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(Hardcover)
Cora-Leigh Hutchinson-Gray
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R568
Discovery Miles 5 680
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Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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A teenage girl is pulled into investigating the truth behind her
new boarding school’s decades-old legend, in this debut
speculative mystery by Tomi Oyemakinde. Just because they let you
in . . . it doesn't mean they'll let you out. When Ife joins
Nithercott School through its prestigious Urban Achievers Program,
she knows immediately that she doesn't fit. Wandering its echoing
halls, she must fend off cruel taunts from the students and
condescending attitudes from the teachers. When she finds herself
thrown into detention for the foreseeable future, she strikes up an
unlikely alliance with Ben, a troublemaker with an annoyingly cute
smile. They've both got reasons to want to get out of Nithercott -
Ben's brother is missing, and no one seems to be bothering to find
him. For Ife, it's just another strange element of this school that
doesn't care about its students. But as more and more people start
going missing, including one of Ife's only friends, she starts to
feel haunted. Who is the figure she's started seeing in the shadowy
halls, who looks mysteriously like herself? And is there any truth
in to the strange urban legend that travels the school like mist .
. . the legend of the Changing Man? 'THE CHANGING MAN is
compulsively readable and utterly thrilling . . . Tomi Oyemakinde
is an exciting new voice' - Katherine Webber, author of Twin Crowns
"Heartfelt, romantic, and quietly groundbreaking. This book will
save lives." Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda It's just three words: I am
nonbinary. But that's all it takes to change everything. When Ben
De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown
out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older
sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even
met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their
parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their
therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school. But Ben's
attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are
thwarted when Nathan Allan, a funny and charismatic student,
decides to take Ben under his wing. As Ben and Nathan's friendship
grows, their feelings for each other begin to change, and what
started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be
a chance to start a happier new life.At turns heartbreaking and
joyous, I Wish You All the Best is both a celebration of life,
friendship, and love, and a shining example of hope in the face of
adversity.
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