num_pages: 354
description: **WINNER of the ILA Young Adult Book Award!**Get ready to die laughing: this is an outrageously funny ride through the last hours of a teenagers life as he searches for love meaning answers and (just maybe) a way to live on. Denton Littles Deathdate takes place in a world exactly like our own except that everyone knows the day on which they will die. For Denton thats in just two daysthe day of his senior prom. Despite his early deathdate Denton has always wanted to live a normal life but his final days are filled with dramatic firsts. First hangover. First sex. First love triangleas the first sex seems to have happened not with his adoring girlfriend but with his best friends hostile sister. (Though hes not totally suresee first hangover.) His anxiety builds when he discovers a strange purple rash making its way up his body. Is this what will kill him? And then a strange man shows up at his funeral claiming to have known Dentons long-deceased mother and warning him to beware of suspicious government characters. . . . Suddenly Dentons life is filled with mysterious questions and precious little time to find the answers.
language: English
title: Denton Little's Deathdate
publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers