How To Say Goodbye In Robot

By Natalie Standiford
(Scholastic Paperbacks, Paperback, 9780545107099, 288pp.)

Publication Date: December 2010

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover, Compact Disc, Compact Disc, MP3 CD, MP3 CD

Categories: Social Issues - Adolescence

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Winter 2009 Kids' List

“New girl Bea and loner Jonah (aka Ghost Boy) strike up an unexpected friendship that is cemented by their mutual love for a strange late-night radio show, finding a sense of community that they never get in the daytime hours. This is a wonderful, peculiar, and touching novel for everyone who has ever not quite fit in.”

-- Jennifer Laughran, Books Inc., San Francisco, CA

Description

From bestselling author Natalie Standiford, an amazing, touching story of two friends navigating the dark waters of their senior year.

New to town, Beatrice is expecting her new best friend to be one of the girls she meets on the first day. But instead, the alphabet conspires to seat her next to Jonah, aka Ghost Boy, a quiet loner who hasn't made a new friend since third grade. Something about him, though, gets to Bea, and soon they form an unexpected friendship. It's not romance, exactly - but it's definitely love. Still, Bea can't quite dispel Jonah's gloom and doom - and as she finds out his family history, she understands why. Can Bea help Jonah? Or is he destined to vanish?

About the Author

Natalie Standiford

Natalie Standiford is the author of The Dating Game series. She does not speak fluent Robot, but How to Say Goodbye in Robot is her first novel for Scholastic Press. She lives in New York City and plays in the all-YA-author band Tiger Beat.

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