About this title: With the charm and truth he brought to his adult novel "The Year of Ice," Malloy delivers a smart, funny work about a straight girl who has fallen hopelessly in love with a gay boy.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780439877619ISBN:043987761X
Description: New. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 316 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 2008-06-01
ISBN-13:9780439877619ISBN:043987761X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780439877619ISBN:043987761X
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: SCHOLASTIC BK SERVICES
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780439877619ISBN:043987761X
Description: New. With the charm and truth he brought to his adult novel "The Year of Ice, " Malloy delivers a smart, funny work about a straight girl who has fallen hopelessly in love with a gay boy. read more
"Molly, the soon to be high school valedictorian in her small town of Le Sueur, MN, just found out that she was accepted to Columbia in New York City. Molly is a good student, heavily into science, and has a major crush on her mysterious science lab partner Mark. Molly discovers that they will both be going to New York after high school graduation. When she figures out that she is entire wrong for Mark, even the wrong gender. While at Columbia Molly makes good friends and discovers a lot about herself. The beginning was very shallow and it took to about page 100 to start pulling me into the story. Their is some sexual content to be aware ."
"A week ago this book was awarded the Minnesota Book Award for young adult literature. I picked it up right away because it beat out some other books that I really liked (ie; "The Black Box" by Julie Schumacher). I was also interested because it was another entry in the quality GLBT genre. As I have many kids looking for books in this genre, I am always looking for things to recommend to them!
I thought this was wonderful! Nerdy girl falls in love with a luscious, brooding boy. Boy allows only friendship. Both graduate and move to the NYC area. Boy eventually, reluctantly, reveals his homosexuality. Girl falls for boy #2 (another nerd), accepts boy #1 as her friend only. New boy falls for gay friend. As one of the character says, "Oh what a tangled web we weave." The requisite friends (the 3 E's) are there for moral support, but have their own love issues. The adults, though good people, supportive of their kids, are conveniently back home. There is a unique aspect to the book, yet many universalities - we all try to figure out what love is about, and we all learn about ourselves in our relationships with others.
This reads smoothly, easily, quickly. I couldn't put it down. I looked forward to reading it each evening!"
"I loved Molly's personality from the very beginning the book. The way she felt about her unrequited love is very close to how I felt from my own personal experience. This book teaches you how you can maintain a relationship after finding out someone you care about is gay. Not only that, but I found myself laughing out loud one page, and smiling in sympathy the next. The one thing I didn't really like about this book was the twist at the end that didn't seem very realistic to me, but nonetheless, it is a fantastic read."
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