Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index
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- 7,99 €
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- 7,99 €
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This moving and uplifting debut follows Juniper Lemon, heartbroken after her older sister Camilla's unexpected death, as she navigates the holes that have been torn in her world, and the mysteries that Camilla left behind.
It's hard to keep close a person everyone keeps telling you is gone.
It's been sixty-five painful days since the death of Juniper's big sister, Camilla. On her first day back at school, bracing herself for the stares and whispers, Juniper borrows Camie's handbag for luck - and discovers an unsent break-up letter inside. It's mysteriously addressed to 'You' and dated July 4th - the day of Camie's accident. Desperate to learn the identity of Camie's secret love, Juniper starts to investigate.
But then she loses something herself. A card from her daily ritual, The Happiness Index: little notecards on which she rates the day. The Index has been holding Juniper together since Camie's death - but without this card, there's a hole. And this particular card contains Juniper's own secret: a memory that she can't let anyone else find out.
The perfect summer read for anyone who loved All The Bright Places or The Fault In Our Stars.
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Juniper "Juni" Lemon, 16, is struggling with the death of her older sister, Camie. Using a method that Camie taught her to see the good in life, Juni writes down the positive and negative things that happen during a given day on numbered index cards. When Juni finds a breakup letter her sister wrote to an unknown "you," she decides to track down the mystery paramour to deliver the note. But things go awry on the first day of school when Juni loses index card #65, which marks the number of days since the car accident that killed Camie and carries Juni's deepest secret. Israel's debut novel sensitively examines loss, survivor's guilt, and how one girl attempts to rebuild her life. The index cards help readers keep track of Juni's healing amid a found-object art project, new friendships, and a blossoming romance. Israel handles the long, painful process of negotiating grief gently and realistically while cleverly interweaving the light mystery of "you's" identity throughout, keeping readers guessing as Juni steps closer to finding closure. Ages 12 up.
