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11 Birthdays
Author | Wendy Mass |
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Coverartist | Digital Vision (RF)/Getty Images, Digital rendering by Joe Zeff and Michael Frost, Cover design by Lillie Mear |
Language | English |
Series | Willow Falls |
Subject | Birthdays, Friendship, Time Loops, Magic |
Genre | Fantasy, Realistic Fiction |
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Publisher | Scholastic Press |
Publication place | United States |
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Awards | William Allen White Award, and a Library Guild Selection |
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Followedby | Finally |
children's time loop novel by Wendy Mass
11 Birthdays is a children's time loop novel written by Wendy Mass and published in by Scholastic Press. It is the first novel in the Willow Falls series.
The novel follows the life of a young girl named Amanda Ellerby who has spent each of her first ten birthdays with the same boy, her best friend Leonard "Leo" Fitzpatrick. With her 11th birthday fast approaching, a falling out between the two friends has
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Wendy Mass
Wendy Mass is the New York Times bestselling author of thirty-one novels for young people (which have been translated into 32 languages and nominated for 92 state book awards), her first was A Mango-Shaped Space (which was awarded the Schneider Family Book Award by the American Library Association), followed by Leap Day, the Twice Upon a Time fairy tale series, Every Soul a Star, The Willow Falls series (that began with 11 Birthdays), Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (which was made into a feature film), The Candymakers series and Pi in the Sky. Her latest books are Bob (co-written with Rebecca Stead) and two early reader series called Space Taxi (co-written with Michael Brawer), and Time Jumpers. Wendy wrote the storyline for an episode of the television show Monk, entitled “Mr. Monk Goes to the Theatre,” which aired during the show’s second season. She was named the New Jersey Association
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Wendy Mass
Published by:Scholastic Press
Release Date:January 1,
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Overview
On their first birthday, they learned to walk. On their fifth, they planted seeds in handmade pots. On their tenth, they learned there are some words you can never take back.
Amanda’s eleventh birthday should have been a happy occasion. Instead she’s dressed in an itchy costume her mother picked out for her Hollywood-themed party (Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, even though the flying monkeys have always creeped her out). Meanwhile, across town, her ex-best friend Leo is celebrating their joint birthday with a huge bash including a person som utför hypnos, a football star, a giant iguana, and a rock grupp. SO not fair!
Amanda can’t wait for the day AFTER her birthday so she can stop thinking about the fight that led to her and Leo having separate parties for the first time in their lives