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Overview

It's been seventy-five days, and Amy still doesn't know how she can possibly exist without her best friend, Julia—especially since it's her fault that Julia's dead. When her shrink tells her it would be a good idea to start a diary, Amy starts writing letters to Julia instead. But as she writes letter after letter, she begins to realize that the past wasn't as perfect as she thought it was—and the present deserves a chance, too.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061122859
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/27/2010
Pages:	290
Sales rank:	589,450
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Scott grew up in a town so small it didn't even have a post office, though it did boast an impressive cattle population. She's sold hardware and panty hose and had a memorable three-day stint in the dot-com industry, where she learned that she really didn't want a career burning CDs. She lives just outside Washington, DC, with her husband; firmly believes you can never own too many books; and would love it if you visited her website, www.elizabethwrites.com.

What People are Saying About This

Claudia Gray

“Few other writers tell stories as heartbreaking, hilarious, complicated and true as Elizabeth Scott, and LOVE YOU HATE YOU MISS YOU is probably her very best yet.”

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Editorial Reviews

Few other writers tell stories as heartbreaking, hilarious, complicated and true as Elizabeth Scott, and LOVE YOU HATE YOU MISS YOU is probably her very best yet.” — Claudia Gray, author of Evernight
“Reminiscent of John Green’s Looking for Alaska (2005)...a satisfying story of an engaging heroine successfully naming and confronting her demons.” — Booklist
“The plot is elegantly carried by [Amy’s] honest, clear expression of how she feels about what she is going through.” — School Library Journal
“Emotional, heartbreaking, and believable. Scott’s writing is clear and spare, almost poetic in the imagery that is created.” — Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)
“Deceptively touching…the twist of a family of thieves gives the story originality.” — School Library Journal

From the Publisher

Reminiscent of John Green’s Looking for Alaska (2005)...a satisfying story of an engaging heroine successfully naming and confronting her demons.

Booklist

Few other writers tell stories as heartbreaking, hilarious, complicated and true as Elizabeth Scott, and LOVE YOU HATE YOU MISS YOU is probably her very best yet.

Claudia Gray

Amy used to sleep around, party hard and have a wild time with her best friend Julia—until Julia dies in a car accident. Readers meet 16-year-old Amy fresh out of rehab—a recovering alcoholic who is also trying to recover her will to live. Amy feels lost without Julia: she has no real friends and believes her parents not only don't know her but don't want to. The events leading up to Julia's death—which give Amy the impression that she killed her—unfold during Amy's post-rehab sessions with her therapist and her parents. Amy's letters to Julia sit between straight narrative chapters, and throughout Amy marks time by counting the days since Julia's death. The teenager's initial, severe alienation may account for the flat affect in the first half of the story, though as Amy reawakens to the possibility of moving on and life becoming meaningful again, Scott's (Living Dead Girl) prose becomes layered with emotion, some of it achingly sad. Amy's story stays mainly in guilt, despair and anger throughout, but shifts slightly toward hope as Amy moves through her grief. Ages 12–up. (June)

Publishers Weekly

Gr 11 Up
Sixteen-year-old Amy, an honor student returning to school in the fall following a brief stay in an alcohol treatment center, has isolated herself from her friends as punishment for the death of her best friend, Julia. In letters to "J," Amy provides insight into her own character as she reminisces about their shared exploits, including shoplifting, drug and alcohol abuse, sexual promiscuity, and pregnancy tests. It is through these letters, along with Amy's therapy sessions and eventual conversations with family and friends, that the teen acknowledges her role in the fatal car accident. Amy's parents try to overcompensate for their initial ignorance of their daughter's problems but remain clueless as to how to relate to her. All the while, Amy is aware of her need for their attention as she appreciates little things like cooking with her mother. At times slowed by descriptions of school cliques and Amy's rejection of them, the plot is elegantly carried by her honest, clear expression of how she feels about what she is going through.-Sue Lloyd, Franklin High School, Livonia, MI

School Library Journal

How do you survive sobriety after killing your best friend? That question encapsulates Amy's life, which she shares through letters to best friend Julia and journal entries, dated with the number of days since the accident that killed Julia. Amy is an engaging narrator, deeply hobbled by her guilt and just beginning to understand herself now that she does not drink. However, she describes drinking at school and then says she was diagnosed in treatment as a binge/party drinker, leaving readers confused and seeming to gloss over a serious problem. She claims her height and red hair as reasons behind the social awkwardness that led to the drinking without offering real depth; and, it turns out, she wasn't even driving the car. Romance and a new friend, plus finally breaking through her parent's devoted love for one another, allow Amy to move beyond her grief and recognize that Julia herself was no paragon. Wobbling between grit and romance, Scott's latest serves neither well. Like Amy, the novel is flawed but appealing. (Fiction. 12 & up)

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