false <![CDATA[Love is the Higher Law]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1239840013m/5982447.jpg 5982447 3 First there is a Before, and then there is an After. . . The lives of three teens—Claire, Jasper, and Peter—are altered forever on September 11, 2001. Claire, a high school junior, has to get to her younger brother in his classroom. Jasper, a college sophomore from Brooklyn, wakes to his parents’ frantic calls from Korea, wondering if he’s okay. Peter, a classmate of Claire’s, has to make his way back to school as everything happens around him.<br><br>Here are three teens whose intertwining lives are reshaped by this catastrophic event. As each gets to know the other, their moments become wound around each other’s in a way that leads to new understandings, new friendships, and new levels of awareness for the world around them and the people close by. David Levithan has written a novel of loss and grief, but also one of hope and redemption as his characters slowly learn to move forward in their lives, despite being changed forever. 6155857 book 25 8 2009 Love is the Higher Law total:125|5:43|4:47|3:31|2:3|1:1| 125 503 407 49 5 2 false false Sun Nov 08 18:38:55 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 18:39:43 -0800 2009
But I read a book this year that changed my mi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 13:15:20 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 13:15:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 22:26:14 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 22:26:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 20:30:26 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 20:59:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 11:10:53 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 11:50:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 18:39:03 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 22:33:46 -0700 2009 *Flamingnet.com TOP CHOICE Award Recipient*

This was an awesome book! It's about three teenagers (Peter, Jasper, and Claire) and their perspectives on the World Trade Center attack on 9/11. The characters actually had some depth. Claire w...more...]]> 4 0 false true Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 18:56:21 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 15:11:19 -0700 2009
David Levithan threw together a novel of growth—of a city, of yourself, of an entire nation. We follow these 3 teens from the ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 12 03:23:58 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 14:20:44 -0700 2009
Huge thanks to the girl who sat next to me on the bus to Chicago from ALA. She had this ARC in her hands when she boarded the bus for our 3 1/2 hour trip home, and she finished it by the time the trip was over. Whe...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 04 08:43:11 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 08:43:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 22:41:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 23:22:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 03:37:10 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 08:05:53 -0800 2009
I felt that some parts of Love is the Higher Law were really well written but other parts, not so much. Claire was a fantastic narrator, I wanted more scenes with her because scenes with her made me feel as if I was right there, in New York City on 9 September 2001. I ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 12:47:28 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 14:33:05 -0700 2009
The story is about 9/11, and how three teens with onl...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 14:21:27 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 17:34:27 -0700 2009
Do you remember where you were on 911?

In David Levithan's LOVE is the HIGHER LAW the characters were all in New York city on that fate full day just as he was. David wanted to create a novel that those too young to experience that world altering day could witness throug...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 13:35:54 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 12:41:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 12:33:39 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 12:36:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 12:23:06 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 12:29:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 28 09:05:03 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 09:05:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 06:22:04 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 06:22:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 15:40:43 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 07:20:43 -0700 2009
I wonder what the target audience (teens) will take from this book? What do they remember of the events that took place 8 years ago? Will they be a...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 30 07:41:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 07:10:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5982447