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Genre/Form: | Young adult fiction Fictional Work YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Mental Illness YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Coming of Age Fiction 13+ General Fiction Juvenile works Mystery fiction Detective and mystery fiction Novels Romans Older Teenage Fiction Juvenile fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: | John Green |
ISBN: | 9780525555360 0525555366 9780525555384 0525555382 9780141346045 0141346043 9780241335437 0241335434 |
OCLC Number: | 992432937 |
Awards: | Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2017. CILIP Carnegie Medal Nominee, 2019. Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Nominee, 2020. School Library Journal's Best Books, 2017. |
Target Audience: | 840; Young Adult. |
Description: | 286 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | John Green. |
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A new modern classic * Guardian * A wrenching and revelatory novel * The New York Times * Imaginative . . . affecting . . . unforgettable * Heat * Written with a sure grasp of the thought processes of teenagers . . . Another winner * The Sunday Times * Tender, wise, and hopeful * The Wall Street Journal * Green's most authentic and most ambitious work to date * Bustle * An existential teenage scream * Vox * Turtles delivers a lesson that we so desperately need right now: Yes, it is okay not to be okay . . . John Green has crafted a dynamic novel that is deeply honest, sometimes painful, and always thoughtful, delivered with the characteristic charm the author is known for. John Green, welcome back. We missed you. * Mashable * A thoughtful look at mental illness and a debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder that doesn't ask but makes you feel the constant struggles of its main character . . . Turtles explores the definition of happy endings, whether love is a tragedy or a failure, and a universal lesson for us all: 'You work with what you have'. * USA Today * A full-on emotional bleed-out . . . John Green hasn't created a book as much as he's created a place - a place to have your most indefinable and grotesque thoughts articulated, to ponder the disconnected reality you experience . . . No matter where you are on the spiral - and we're all somewhere - Green's novel makes the trip, either up or down, a less solitary experience. * The Globe and Mail * Read more...