Not Nothing by Gayle Forman
Four starred reviews!"The book we all need at the time we all need it." --Katherine Applegate, Newbery Award-winning author of The One and Only Ivan
In this "tale of intergenerational friendship forged through a shared understanding of loss...told with spellbinding grace" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Gayle Forman, a boy assigned to spend his summer volunteering at a senior living facility learns unexpected lessons.
Alex is twelve, and he did something very, very bad. A judge sentences him to spend his summer volunteering at a retirement home where he's bossed around by an annoying and self-important do-gooder named Maya-Jade. He hasn't seen his mom in a year, his aunt and uncle don't want him, and Shady Glen's geriatric residents seem like zombies to him.
Josey is 107 and ready for his life to be over. He has evaded death many times, having survived ghettos, dragnets, and a concentration camp--all thanks to the heroism of a woman named Olka and his own ability to sew. But now he spends his days in room 206 at Shady Glen, refusing to speak and waiting (and waiting and waiting) to die. Until Alex knocks on Josey's door...and Josey begins to tell Alex his story.
As Alex comes back again and again to hear more, an unlikely bond grows between them. Soon a new possibility opens up for Alex: Can he rise to the occasion of his life, even if it means confronting the worst thing that he's ever done?
Gayle Forman is a New York Times bestselling novelist and journalist whose work has appeared in Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications. If I Stay and Where She Gone were New York Times bestsellers, and she also wrote Sisters in Sanity (HarperTeen). Her spouse and two daughters live in Brooklyn, New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781665943284 |
| ISBN 10 | 1665943289 |
| Title | Not Nothing |
| Author | Gayle Forman |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Aladdin Paperbacks |
| Year published | 2025-08-26 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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