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    612-822-4611

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Not Nothing

Not Nothing

Forman, Gayle

Paperback

FamilyGeneral Juvenile FictionReligion

ISBN10: 1665943289
ISBN13: 9781665943284
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: Aug 26 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.13 Depth: 7.63
Language: English
Four starred reviews!
The book we all need at the time we all need it. --Katherine Applegate, Newbery Award-winning author of The One and Only Ivan

In this tale of intergenerational friendship forged through a shared understanding of loss...told with spellbinding grace (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Gayle Forman, a boy assigned to spend his summer volunteering at a senior living facility learns unexpected lessons.

Alex is twelve, and he did something very, very bad. A judge sentences him to spend his summer volunteering at a retirement home where he's bossed around by an annoying and self-important do-gooder named Maya-Jade. He hasn't seen his mom in a year, his aunt and uncle don't want him, and Shady Glen's geriatric residents seem like zombies to him.

Josey is 107 and ready for his life to be over. He has evaded death many times, having survived ghettos, dragnets, and a concentration camp--all thanks to the heroism of a woman named Olka and his own ability to sew. But now he spends his days in room 206 at Shady Glen, refusing to speak and waiting (and waiting and waiting) to die. Until Alex knocks on Josey's door...and Josey begins to tell Alex his story.

As Alex comes back again and again to hear more, an unlikely bond grows between them. Soon a new possibility opens up for Alex: Can he rise to the occasion of his life, even if it means confronting the worst thing that he's ever done?

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