Title: Thanks for the trouble
Description: Tommy Wallach, the New York Times bestselling author of the  stunning debut  (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) We All Looked Up, delivers a brilliant new novel about a young man who overcomes a crippling loss and finds the courage to live after meeting an enigmatic girl.  Was this story written about me?  I shrugged.  Yes or no?  I shrugged again, finally earning a little scowl, which somehow made the girl even more pretty. It s very rude not to answer simple questions,  she said.I gestured for my journal, but she still wouldn t give it to me. So I took out my pen and wrote on my palm. I can t, I wrote. Then, in tiny letters below it: Now don t you feel like a jerk? Parker Sant  hasn t spoken a word in five years. While his classmates plan for bright futures, he skips school to hang out in hotels, killing time by watching the guests. But when he meets a silver-haired girl named Zelda Toth, a girl who claims to be quite a bit older than she looks, he ll discover there just might be a few things left worth living for. From the celebrated author of We All Looked Up comes a unique story of first and last loves.
Subjects: Realistic fiction, Juvenile fiction, Death, Selective mutism, Love, Fiction, Children's fiction, Love, fiction, Death, fiction