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A World Without You


School year: Year 10, Year 8, Year 9

No. of pages 384

Published: 2017

Great for age 12-18 years

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Seventeen year old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that he's actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have 'superpowers.' At Berkshire, Bo falls in love with Sofia, a quiet girl with a tragic past and the superpower of invisibility. Sofia helps Bo open up in a way he never has before. In turn, Bo provides comfort to Sofia, who lost her mother and two sisters at a very young age. But even the strength of their love isn't enough to help Sofia escape her deep depression. After she commits suicide, Bo is convinced that she's not actually dead. He believes that she's stuck somewhere in time - that he somehow left her in the past, and now it's his job to save her.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 7th grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 12 years.

There are 384 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2017 by Razorbill .

Other contributing authors include Neal and Brendan Shusterman, Beth Revis, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Courtney Summers, Kendare Blake, Delilah S. Dawson, Steve Brezenoff, Tom Leveen, Hannah Moskowitz, Blythe Woolston, Trish Doller, Mindi Scott, Margie Gelbwasser, Christine Johnson, E. M. Kokie, and Elisa Nader.

 

"A story that's both heartbreaking and hopeful." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

"The voices of both narrators are impossible to ignore as the lines between flawed visions and reality blur in a powerful revelation of the delusional and paranoid mind. Revis's account of grief, loss, first love, and anguish, presented through a lens of mental illness, is a must-read." --VOYA, starred review

 

 

"A gripping exploration of a young man's struggle with delusions and grief." --Booklist

"A page-turning psychological thriller." --Kirkus Reviews

"A compelling peek into the darkest corners of mental illness." --School Library Journal

"YA's answer to Shutter Island." --The Horn Book

"A painfully brilliant and transporting read. This novel has the rare superpower to change and save lives." --Adam Silvera, New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than Not

 

 

"A World Without You tackles grief, mental illness, and family dynamics with both grace and generosity. I fell in love with Bo's story of perseverance in the face of seemingly endless struggle and was left brimming with hope. Readers will emerge from this book a little stronger than when they entered." --Emily Henry, author of The Love That Split the World

 

 

"Beth Revis delivers us an astonishing shape-shifter of a tale that dazzles and startles at every tense turn. Themes of love, secrets, and heartbreak are woven into a taut and bewitching narrative that will pull you in and not let you go. Don't forget to breathe." --Adele Griffin, author of The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone

"A World Without You is a beautiful, devastating, mind-bending adventure." --Suzanne Young, New York Times bestselling author of The Program series