About this title: Told in alternating chapters, teeming with music references, humor, angst, and endearing side characters, this he said/she said romance is a sexy, funny roller coaster of a story about one date over one very long night, with two teenagers who are just trying to figure out who they want to be.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13:9780375835315ISBN:0375835318
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13:9780375835315ISBN:0375835318
Description: Good. Purchasing this book supports the King County Library System Foundation. Thriftbooks and KCLSF have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13:9780375835315ISBN:0375835318
Description: Good. Purchasing this book supports the King County Library System Foundation. Thriftbooks and KCLSF have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13:9780375835339ISBN:0375835334
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13:9780375835339ISBN:0375835334
Description: Good. Purchasing this item supports Pierce County libraries. Thriftbooks and PCL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13:9780375835339ISBN:0375835334
Description: Good. Purchasing this DVD supports the North Central Regional Library. Thriftbooks and NCRL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Library ID found on DVD and case. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13:9780375835339ISBN:0375835334
Description: Good. Purchasing this DVD supports the North Central Regional Library. Thriftbooks and NCRL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Library ID found on DVD and case. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13:9780375835339ISBN:0375835334
Description: Good. Purchasing this book supports the King County Library System Foundation. Thriftbooks and KCLSF have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780375835339ISBN:0375835334
Description: Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 183 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2006-05-23
ISBN-13:9780375835315ISBN:0375835318
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2007-08-28
ISBN-13:9780375835339ISBN:0375835334
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2008-08-26
ISBN-13:9780375846144ISBN:037584614X
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780375846144ISBN:037584614X
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 183 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile; Young adult. unread, remainder mark read more
Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and may have creases. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2006-05-23
ISBN-13:9780375835315ISBN:0375835318
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Description: New. Orders placed after Dec. 7 cannot be guaranteed delivery before Christmas. GREAT BUY. Brand New From US Distributor. WE ARE A 5 STAR SELLER with OVER 3, 500, 000 BOOKS SOLD. read more
Binding: Library Binding
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2006-05-23
ISBN-13:9780375935312ISBN:0375935312
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
"This YA book was a little bit "High Fidelity" a little bit "Can't Hardly Wait", a little bit Chuck Klosterman and a little bit "Go" with a heavy PUNK vibe.
The story is told in double-first-person switching back and forth each chapter between Nick and Norah's point of view. Nick is the eighteen-year-old guitar player in a "queercore" punk band who has recently been dumped by the girl he thought he was in love with. When said girl shows up at one of his shows, he can't bear to face her, so he turns to some chick named Norah and asks, "You you mind being my girlfriend for five minutes?"
That one line launches them into the most insanely wild, romantic, confusing, badass, angsty, funny, self-conscious, self-aware, punk rocking, tender, sexy, back-and-forth first dates EVER.
The whole book was seriously one long ride where you find yourself cheering for and getting annoyed at the two main characters as they dance around and toward each other in a series of events that make you say, "Wait these kids are in HIGH SCHOOL." Yes, the mature, wordly, sexually experienced self-awareness exhibited by the characters made me frequently think, "These sound like 25-year-olds," and I often pictured the cast of "Go" as opposed to "Dawson's Creek". But I just as frequently found myself saying, "Damn, these are the coolest mutherf---ers you have ever met and I would have given anything in high school to hang out with them."
This book was for me what I think "The Notebook" was for women. Just once, I wish I had had one night with a girl that was as emotionally "all out" as the one these two kids experienced traipsing through Manhattan and the underground punk scene. It's an unrealistic fantasy that you can't help but believing.
This is supposedly a Young Adult book, but it is INCREDIBLY mature both in language and sexuality... yet funnily and sweetly, the two main characters are surprisingly chaste and straight-edge. All in all this one is definitely worth picking up. It's a fast read and a faster ride."
"My wife loved this book and dragged me to the movie shortly after it came out. I thought the movie was cute---a better than average teen romance set in my old stomping grounds of New York City's Greenwich Village and Soho. On leaving the theater, I soon heard from my wife how much better the book was, and how disappointing the movie was. I guess it's all a question of what you're expecting going in...
I started reading the book as soon as we got home.
It opens with a great hook. Nick sees his ex-girlfriend at a club and doesn't want to face her. So he turns to the girl next to him, Norah, and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes. Surprisingly, she responds by kissing him. Over the course of an all-night adventure in New York, they get to know each other better while each wrestles with their own doubts and insecurities and tries to figure out what to think of the other.
I loved it! And my wife was right about the movie.
The lead characters were likable and realistic. Their concerns and doubts, their hopes and fears, the roller coaster of she loves me, she loves me not, all resonated with the distant memories of my teen years. The fact that the story is set in a realistic New York City was a bonus. The story wasn't always predicable (despite having seen the movie!) and included a nicely humorous touch to keep things from getting too serious (or too overwhelmed with teen angst).
In reading through other reviews, here and on other sites, I'm surprised by the number of people who find the casual cursing and implied sexuality objectionable. I don't know quite how to respond. It's realistic fiction. And these things are part of reality, especially for teenagers on the cusp of adulthood. Obviously younger kids are probably not ready for, and wouldn't understand, some aspects of the real world. But I think this book would be fine for most high school kids. I doubt they will find much here (except perhaps the night life of New York) that they haven't heard about, thought about, and talked about with their peers. In fact, the biggest surprise for a high school reader may be the authors' empathy for the doubts and fears and ups and downs of teen life."
"This is one of those books I would have devoured in high school - short, sweet, with characters that reminded me of my friends or people I would want to be friends with. A lot of the reviewers have complained about the copious use of the F-bomb, but that's how my friends and I talked (and continue to talk ...). I give this book kudos for not toning it down, as well as the inclusion of queer characters without tokenizing or sermonizing.
Quite frankly, even with the language and sex, I'd rather teen girls be reading this than the Twilight series - stronger female lead, healthier relationships."
"I loved this book so much that I didn't want to reach the end of it. The characters of Nick and Norah are so original and developed that it was exciting to watch them maneuver through their night together. The alternating authors made each character's voice unique but both fit very well within the framework of the story. This book made me want to read more of the writers' other works, listen to the music that Nick and Norah listen to, and re-read the book over again."
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