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Winner of the 2015 Michael L. Printz Award
Winner of a 2015 Stonewall Honor
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2014
A TIME Top Ten Young Adult Book of 2014
A Boston Globe Best Young Adult Novel of 2014
A Huffington Post Top 12 Young Adult Book of 2014
A 2014 Cybil Award Finalist
A 2015 YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults Book
A 2015 Topo Ten Rainbow List Selection
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014
A School Library Journal Best Book of 2014
A 2014 Booklist Edtior's Choice Book
★ "Dazzling." --The New York Times Book Review
★ "Have you ever wanted to put a book in all of your friends' hands? This is that kind of book . . . Heartbreakingly honest." --San Francisco Chronicle
★ "Bold, even breathtaking. You get the sense [the] characters are bursting through the words, breaking free of normal metaphors and constructions, jubilantly trying to rise up from the prison of language . . . The book celebrates art's capacity to heal, but it also shows us how we excavate meaning from the art we cherish, and how we find reflections of ourselves within it. . . . I'll Give You the Sun is a dazzling mirror." --New York Times Book Review
★ "Both structurally virtuosic . . . and emotionally wrenching. That alone is a rare combination in literature, YA or otherwise. But then add in the characters . . . This book is a rebuttal to anyone suggesting YA, because it tells stories of young people, is somehow of lesser stuff. I'll Give You The Sun is literature. Full stop. In my opinion, it's not just the best YA book of the year, but one of the best books of the year." --Gayle Forman for Parade
★ "This book is many things at once, all of them engrossing. It's a book where teenagers think in almost indulgently poetic language while still sounding genuinely adolescent. It's two separate but equally intoxicating love stories. . . . Most of all, it's the mystery of what happened to tear Noah and Jude apart, and what--if anything--can bring them back together again." --NPR's Guide to 2014's Great Reads
★ "This book is about many things: grief, sexuality, creativity, bravery, identity, guilt. But mostly it's about love. Be prepared with more tissues than you needed for The Fault in Our Stars, a chunky notebook to scribble down all the quotes and a handful of witty responses when people ask why you're chuckling to yourself in the corner. Because this book will make you realise how beautiful words can be." --The Guardian
★ "Simply unforgettable. . . . If you're looking for a book that's deep and powerful and beautiful, look no further. You must read I'll Give You the Sun." --Huffington Post's "Top 12 Young Adult Books of 2014"
★ "Readers are meant to feel big things, and they will--Nelson's novel brims with emotion (grief, longing, and love in particular) as Noah, Jude, and the broken individuals in their lives find ways to heal." --Publishers Weekly
★ "A resplendent novel...Art and wonder fill each page." --School Library Journal
★ "Ingeniously told from the alternating perspectives of its spunky twin protagonists, this (technically) young adult noel jubilantly holds its own against the fall's grown-up offerings, with dead-on insights about surviving youth--and family." --O, the Oprah Magazine
★ "You'd think that we were plugging The Fault in Our Stars, but even that comparison might sell short I'll Give You the Sun... [It's] planted firmly in the positive, making for a gravity-defying, life-affirming experience." --San Francisco Magazine
★ "[Nelson] has an electrifying facility with description, especially how her characters feel at a given moment . . . [Jude], Noah, and the fine cast of subsidiary characters . . . are most memorable for how they poignantly illustrate the most basic of human emotions--love, grief, shame, remorse, joy." --Chicago Tribune
