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Before We Go Extinct
Karen Rivers

Before We Go Extinct

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Jul 2016)
9780374302405
| Hardcover
256 pages | eng
LC Classification PZ7.R5224 .Be 2016

Genre

  • General Fiction
  • Teens
  • Young Adult

Subject

  • Fathers And Sons - Fiction
  • Friendship - Fiction
  • Grief - Fiction
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Parents
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Suicide
  • Suicide - Fiction

Plot

Grief can sometimes feel like being caught in the jaws of a great white shark.J.C., who goes by the nickname Sharky, has been having a hard time ever since his best friend died in front of him in what might or might not have been an accident. Shell-shocked, Sharky spends countless hours holed up in his room, obsessively watching documentaries about sharks and climate change—and texting his dead friend. Hoping a change of location will help, Sharky’s mom sends him to visit his dad on a remote island in Canada. There, Sharky meets a girl who just may show him how to live—and love—again.