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The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza


School year: Lower 6th, Year 10, Year 11

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Published: 2018

Great for age 12-18 years

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A Junior Library Guild Selection Surreal, brainy, and totally captivating. Booklist (starred review) Provocative and moving. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Hutchinson artfully blends the realistic and the surreal. School Library Journal (starred review) From the critically acclaimed author of We Are the Ants and At the Edge of the Universe comes a mind-bending, riveting novel about a teen who was born to a virgin mother and realizes she has the power to healbut that power comes at a huge cost.Sixteen-year-old Elena Mendoza is the product of a virgin birth. This can be scientifically explained (its called parthenogenesis), but what cant be explained is how Elena is able to heal Freddie, the girl shes had a crush on for years, from a gunshot wound in a Starbucks parking lot. Or why the boy who shot Freddie, David Combs, disappeared from the same parking lot minutes later after getting sucked up into the clouds. Other things that cant be explained are the talking girl on the front of a tampon box, or the reasons that David Combs shot Freddie in the first place. As more unbelievable things occur, and Elena continues to perform miracles, the only remaining explanation is the least logical of allthat the world is actually coming to an end, and Elena is possibly the only one who can do something about it.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 9th grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 14-18 years.

This book 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 2018 by Simon & Schuster .

Shaun David Hutchinson is the author of The Deathday Letter , fml , and The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley.