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A gritty, romantic modern fairy tale from the author of Break and Gone, Gone, Gone.

Be careful what you believe in.

Rudy’s life is flipped upside-down when his family moves to a remote island in a last attempt to save his sick younger brother. With nothing to do but worry, Rudy sinks deeper and deeper into loneliness and lies awake at night listening to the screams of the ocean beneath his family’s rickety house.

Then he meets Diana, who makes him wonder what he even knows about love, and Teeth, who makes him question what he knows about anything. Rudy can’t remember the last time he felt so connected to someone, but being friends with Teeth is more than a little bit complicated. He soon learns that Teeth has terrible secrets. Violent secrets. Secrets that will force Rudy to choose between his own happiness and his brother’s life.

About The Author

Photograph by Kim Moskowitz

Hannah Moskowitz is the award-winning author of the young adult novels Sick Kids In LoveNot Otherwise SpecifiedBreakInvincible SummerGone, Gone, Gone; and Teeth; as well as the middle grade novels Zombie Tag and Marco Impossible. She lives in New York City. 

Product Details

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (January 1, 2013)
  • Length: 288 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781442449473
  • Grades: 9 and up
  • Ages: 14 - 99
  • Lexile ® HL670L The Lexile reading levels have been certified by the Lexile developer, MetaMetrics®

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Awards and Honors

  • Bulletin Blue Ribbon
  • ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults Nominee
  • ALA/YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults - Top Ten
  • MSTA Reading Circle List
  • Green Earth Book Award Shortlist

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