{"product_id":"dear-reader-paperback","title":"Dear Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary O'Connell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Imaginative, exhilarating, genre-bending, and one of the best YA novels of the year.\" --\u003ci\u003eBookRiot\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An audacious tale. Like much classic literature and like growing up, reading this immersive novel is all about the experience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Horn Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn IndieNext Pick!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGilmore Girls\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e in Mary O\u003c\/b\u003e'\u003cb\u003eConnell's \u003ci\u003eDear Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, a whip-smart, poignant, modern-day take on Emily Brontë's classic novel.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor seventeen-year-old Flannery Fields, the only respite from the plaid-skirted mean girls at Sacred Heart High School is her beloved teacher Miss Sweeney's AP English class. But when Miss Sweeney doesn't show up to teach Flannery's favorite book, \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e, leaving behind her purse, Flannery knows something is wrong. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe police are called, and Flannery gives them everything--except Miss Sweeney's copy of \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e. This she holds onto. And good thing she does, because when she opens it, it has somehow transformed into Miss Sweeney's real-time diary. It seems Miss Sweeney is in New York City--and she's in trouble. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo Flannery does something very unFlannery-like: she skips school and sets out for Manhattan, with the book as her guide. But as soon as she arrives, she meets a boy named Heath. Heath is British, on a gap year, incredibly smart--yet he's never heard of Albert Einstein or Anne Frank. In fact, Flannery can't help thinking that he seems to have stepped from the pages of Brontë's novel. Could it be that Flannery is spending this topsy-turvy day with her ultimate fictional romantic hero, Heathcliff, reborn in the twenty-first century?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARY O'CONNELL i\u003c\/b\u003es a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and the author of the short story collection, \u003ci\u003eLiving With Saints\u003c\/i\u003e, and the YA novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Sharp Time\u003c\/i\u003e. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in several literary magazines, and she is the recipient of a James Michener Fellowship and a Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award. She lives with her husband and her three children in Lawrence, Kansas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 04, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693721096255,"sku":"9781250077097","price":27.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/b5ddbce7202613b778c42da7a28b259f.webp?v=1764999751","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/dear-reader-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}