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I'll Give You the Sun

  • 400 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 2014
  • 10 editions

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1 About this book

A brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell.

Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.

Good for readers who want: a love story and a coming-of-age story.

  • Romance
  • Coming of age
  • Grief
  • Love & Romance
  • Young Adult
  • Death
  • Family life
  • Brothers and sisters

2 About Jandy Nelson

Born 1965

Jandy Nelson (born November 25, 1965) is an American author. Prior to her career as an author, Nelson worked for 13 years as a literary agent at Manus & Associates Literary Agency. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University as well as several Master of Fine Arts degrees. She later attended Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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