Graduation……..Now what?......

How about a road trip?

2 Friends -Going nowhere in particular

• Child Prodigy or is he washed up?

• Has a thing for Katherines

• Heartbroken• Searching for the

ultimate theorem on dating and dumping

Colin Singleton

• Colin’s best friend• Rather fat, Lebanese

descent, speaks Arabic, Muslim

• Sense of adventure and sense of humor

• Brutally honest• Loves Judge Judy

Hassan Harbish

Katherine XIX has dumped Colin…..

Hassan has his work cut out for him cheering Colin up

Colin

19 times orXIX times

He needs to find a formula for dumpees…..

And Katherines of course……Some way to predict the dump before it happens…..Before it hurts….

Colin is searching for an explanation…..A formula to make this all make sense!

The best lesson…. As Colin puts it “ I will get forgotten, but the

stories will last. And so we all matter-maybe less than a lot, but

always more than none.”

Gutshot, Tennessee

• Lindsay Lee Wells• A job?• Some lessons?

Colin learned one thing from Gutshot….”you can’t stop the future from coming. For the first time in his life, he smiled thinking about the always-coming infinite future stretching out before him.”

If you enjoy this book, I think you’ll really enjoy…

• Winner of the 2004 Coretta Scott King Award (Writing Category)

• Winner of the 2004 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature

This is the story of Bobby

and

Feather

This is a story :•of love•What’s right•Growing up•Sacrifices•Decisions and consequences

I’d really like to recommend that you read…

It’s not what you think….

Have you ever had someone take your breath away?

Ever had to remind yourself to breath?

Sometime you seek the thrill …….. sometimes it finds you.

Have you ever fallen in love? Wished that you had?

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