描述
• Big Mouth ARC mailing to 175 key educators and librarians
• Extensive ARC distribution at national school & library conferences
• Include in Fall announcement advertising in the Horn Book, School Library Journal and Booklist
• Tahereh Mafi/Patrick Ness announcement ad, August issues of SLJ and Booklist
• A Very Large Expanse of Sea solo e-blast via School Library Journal booked for pub to 50K subscribers (October)
• Author appearance and lead promotion at ALA 2018, including booth blow-up, and extensive ARC distribution
• Author appearance at SLJ Day of Dialog, YA panel
• Day of Dialog Children's Librarians Dinner keynote speaker slot
• YALSA galley mailing to teen book groups at school and public libraries across the country
• HarperStacks online promotion
• Finished book coupon ad giveaway at NCTE in Houston (November 2018)
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature!
From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful, heartrending contemporary novel about fear, first love, and the devastating impact of prejudice.
It’s 2002, a year after 9/11. It’s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who’s tired of being stereotyped.
Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. She’s tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments—even the physical violence—she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. So she’s built up protective walls and refuses to let anyone close enough to hurt her. Instead, she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother.
But then she meets Ocean James. He’s the first person in forever who really seems to want to get to know Shirin. It terrifies her—they seem to come from two irreconcilable worlds—and Shirin has had her guard up for so long that she’s not sure she’ll ever be able to let it down.