We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach (English) Paperback Book

Description: We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach Includes a Q & A with the author and a sneak peek of Strange fire. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Four high school seniors put their hopes, hearts, and humanity on the line as an asteroid hurtles toward Earth in Tommy Wallachs New York Times bestselling "stunning debut" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).They always say that high school is the best time of your life. Peter, the star basketball player at his school, is worried "they" might actually be right. Meanwhile Eliza cant wait to escape Seattle--and her reputation--and perfect-on-paper Anita wonders if admission to Princeton is worth the price of abandoning her real dreams. Andy, for his part, doesnt understand all the fuss about college and career--the future can wait. Or can it? Because it turns out the future is hurtling through space with the potential to wipe out life on Earth. As these four seniors--along with the rest of the planet--wait to see what damage an asteroid will cause, they must abandon all thoughts of the future and decide how theyre going to spend what remains of the present. Author Biography Tommy Wallach is the author of the Anchor & Sophia trilogy, Thanks for the Trouble, and the New York Times bestselling We All Looked Up, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. His writing has appeared in McSweeneys, Tin House, Wired, and other magazines, and he is a MacDowell Fellow. He was signed to Decca Records as a singer-songwriter, and has independently released two full-length albums, including We All Looked Up: The Album, a companion record to his first novel. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he recently opened up his first escape room, and is working on bringing his novels to various sorts of screens. Grok more at TommyWallach.com. Review *"In this stunning debut...Wallach pierces his darkness with tenderness and humor. A thought-provoking story that will bring out readers inner philosophers." Review Quote "Wallach has created an accessible cast of realistic teens struggling with identity, family, and loyalty… Fans of gritty and apocalyptic fiction wont be disappointed." Excerpt from Book We All Looked Up Peter "ITS NOT THE END OF the world," Stacy said. Peter looked down. Hed been staring vacantly at the sky, replaying his brief conversation with Mr. McArthur in his head. He still wasnt sure what to make of it. "What?" "I said its not the end of the world. So one person doesnt like you. Who cares?" "You really think he doesnt like me?" Stacy groaned. Theyd already been talking about this for fifteen minutes, which, in Peters experience, was about fourteen minutes longer than his girlfriend liked to talk about any serious subject. "I dont know. Maybe hes jealous of you or something." "Why would he be jealous of me?" "Because, like . . ." She flipped her hair to one side of her head, then back again. Peter had never understood why she did that; maybe shed seen it in a shampoo commercial or something. She did have great hair, though--a shoo-in for best in school, when yearbook time came around--long and latte brown, the same smooth, glossy texture as a basketball jersey. "You have all this potential, you know? Like your whole life in front of you. And hes stuck in this shit school teaching the same shit history over and over again. If I had to do what he does every year, Id probably end up hanging myself in a supply closet or something." "I guess." The thought had never crossed his mind, that a teacher might be jealous of a student. As a little kid, Peter had figured that once you reached a certain age, somebody just handed you all the knowledge youd need in order to be an adult. But it turned out that wasnt how it worked at all. Peters dad had recently admitted that even at the age of fifty-two, he sometimes woke up with the absolute certainty that he was only twenty-four, with his whole life still spread out before him like an untouched Thanksgiving dinner. It was just one of the many mysteries of getting older, along with male pattern baldness, midlife crises, and erectile dysfunction. Of course the only alternative to going through all that stuff, to slowly losing your looks and your teeth and your hair and finally your mind, was to bite the big one early, which nobody wanted to do. Mr. McArthur was bald. Maybe he had erectile dysfunction, too. And really, what right did Peter have to be pissed at some aging high school history teacher, when his own life was so freakishly, criminally good? In his three and a half years at Hamilton, hed started on the basketball team four times. Hed been to state twice and nationals once. Hed lost his virginity to Stacy, been given a sweet Jeep for his sixteenth birthday, and ended up good and wasted at about a hundred crazy-fun parties. And now he was eighteen. In the fall, hed be off to sunny California (technically, acceptance letters wouldnt come until March, but the Stanford athletic department said he was as good as in). And seriously, how sick was college going to be? Pledging some frat and playing ball all over the country and partying with his teammates and frat brothers every weekend. Stacy would be sure to get into SF State, so theyd see each other all the time. Then hed go pro if he were lucky, or else get into coaching or something, and he and Stacy would get married and raise some kids and hit up Baja or TJ over Christmas breaks and buy a kick-ass summer place on Lake Chelan with a Jacuzzi. That was what life was supposed to do, right? Just keep getting better and better? But Peter knew it wasnt like that for everyone; he watched the news (or at least saw it out of the corner of his eye when his parents turned it on). People starved. People lost their jobs and then their homes. People came down with messed-up diseases and they had ugly divorces and their kids got in motorcycle accidents and ended up in wheelchairs. Maybe Mr. McArthurs life had just been getting worse and worse since he left high school. Maybe he really was jealous. And if not, then what the hell point had he been trying to make in class? "Baby, stop worrying about it." Stacy gave him a dry kiss on the cheek. "If I got all bent out of shape whenever someone didnt like me, Id be, like . . ." She thought for a few seconds, then shrugged. "I dont know. Seriously bent out of shape." "Yeah. Youre right." "Of course I am. And Im also starving. Come on." It was chicken fingers day in the lunchroom, traditionally a day of joy (because the Hamilton chicken fingers were mad good). Peter loaded up his tray with two paper boats full of them, a lemon-lime Gatorade, a chocolate pudding, an apple, a granola bar, and a fingerbowls worth of wilted green lettuce and shredded carrot. He crossed the lunchroom, catching sight of his little sisters newly dyed hair (the sink in their shared bathroom still looked like a leprechaun had thrown up and then died in it). She was eating lunch with her freak boyfriend over at the freak table. In his minds eye, Peter could still see a younger version of her sitting next to him on the living room couch, playing with her Legos, back before she transformed into something feminine and unfathomable. "Dude, you okay?" Peter looked up into the waving hand of his best friend, Cartier Stoffler. "Ive already eaten, like, three of your chicken fingers." "Yeah, sorry. Im having a weird day. Something a teacher said." "You in trouble?" "Not like that. Its hard to explain." "Heres my trick with teachers, right? Dont ever listen to them in the first place." "Brilliant." "Its got me this far," he said, then popped a whole chicken finger into his mouth. Peter laughed as convincingly as he could. Cartier was generally pretty good at cheering him up, but it was no use today. Mr. Details ISBN1481418785 Author Tommy Wallach Short Title WE ALL LOOKED UP R/E Audience Age 14-17 Publisher Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Language English ISBN-10 1481418785 ISBN-13 9781481418782 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 223 Pages 416 Year 2016 Publication Date 2016-08-30 Edition Description Reprint ed. Imprint Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Audience Teenage / Young adult 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:99132772;

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