Who knows you well? Your best friend?
Your boyfriend or girlfriend? A stranger you meet on a crazy night? No one,
really?
Mark
and Kate have sat next to each other for an entire year, but have never spoken.
For whatever reason, their paths outside of class have never crossed.
That
is until Kate spots Mark miles away from home, out in the city for a wild,
unexpected night. Kate is lost, having just run away from a chance to finally
meet the girl she has been in love with from afar. Mark, meanwhile, is in love
with his best friend Ryan, who may or may not feel the same way.
When
Kate and Mark meet up, little do they know how important they will become to
each other -- and how, in a very short time, they will know each other better
than any of the people who are supposed to know them more.
A book told in alternating points of view by Nina LaCour, the
award-winning author of Hold Still andThe Disenchantments, and
David Levithan, the best-selling author of Every
Day and co-author of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (with Rachel Cohn) and Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with John Green), You Know Me Well is a deeply honest story about navigating
the joys and heartaches of first love, one truth at a time.
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the book at:
About the Authors:
David Levithan:
I find it
downright baffling to write about myself, which is why I’m considering it
somewhat cruel and usual to have to write this brief bio and to update it now
and then. The factual approach (born ’72, Brown ’94, first book ’03) seems a
bit dry, while the emotional landscape (happy childhood, happy adolescence –
give or take a few poems – and happy adulthood so far) sounds horribly
well-adjusted. The only addiction I’ve ever had was a brief spiral into the
arms of diet Dr Pepper, unless you count My So-Called Life episodes
as a drug. I am evangelical in my musical beliefs.
When not writing during spare
hours on weekends, I am a publisher and editorial director at Scholastic, and
the founding editor of the PUSH imprint, which is devoted to finding new voices
and new authors in teen literature. Among the authors I’ve edited and/or
published under the Scholastic Press imprint are Suzanne Collins, Maggie
Stiefvater, Ann M. Martin, Garth Nix, Patrick Carman, Natalie Standiford, Alice
Hoffman, Gordon Korman, M. T. Anderson, Blake Nelson, Cecil Castellucci, and
many, many other awesome writers.
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Nina LaCour:
Nina LaCour is the author of three critically acclaimed young adult novels
published by Dutton Books: Hold Still, The Disenchantments, and Everything Leads to You. You
Know Me Well, a novel written in
collaboration with David Levithan, is forthcoming from St. Martin's Griffin in
June, 2016.
She has tutored, taught, and
guest lectured in various places, including Berkeley City College, Maybeck High
School, Stanford University, and Mills College, where she
received an MFA in Creative Writing in 2006. Her novels have been Junior
Library Guild selections, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, and have appeared on
many state and regional lists. Nina won the 2009 Northern California Book Award for Children’s
Literature, was featured in Publishers Weekly as a Flying Starts Author, and
was a finalist for the William C. Morris award. She loves teaching, reading
work by emerging and established writers, and talking about the craft of
fiction.
She
lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife, photographer Kristyn Stroble, and
their daughter.
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with the Nina at:
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