“Two struggling teens develop an unlikely relationship in a moving exploration of grief, suicide and young love. Many teen novels touch on similar themes, but few do it so memorably.”
An exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.
When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school—six stories above the ground—it's unclear who saves whom. And when the unlikely pair teams up on a class project to discover the "natural wonders" of their state, they go, as Finch says, where the road takes them: the grand, the small, the bizarre, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising—just like life. Soon it's only with Violet that Finch can be himself—a bold, funny, live-out-loud guy, who's not such a freak after all. And it's only with Finch that Violet forgets to count away the days and starts living them. But as Violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink. This is a heart-wrenching, unflinching story of love shared, life lived, and two teens who find one another while standing on the edge.
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Awards
GoodReads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fiction of 2015
#1 Kids' Indie Next Book for Winter '14-'15
Children's Choice Book Awards Teen Book of the Year
SCIBA's Young Adult Book of the Year
Dioraphte Literature Prize for Best YA Book (translated)
Dioraphte Audience Award for Best YA Book
A Time Magazine Best Book of the Year
2016 Mare di Libri Book Prize for Best YA Book
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year
A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year
A YALSA Best Book of the Year
A Guardian Best Book of the Year
A BuzzFeed Best Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
Nominated for the Carnegie Medal
Longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
2016 Amelia Elizabeth Walden finalist
A YALSA Teens' Top Ten Book of 2016
ATBP Extras
Meet Germ Magazine
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ATBP swag
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The Wandering Found
Their debut album, The Great Manifesto, is based on All the Bright Places. Take a musical journey through the novel…
Haley Jonay
“I woke up the next morning after reading ATBP with a single line in my head: ‘you were made to fly, but what happens when a bird runs out of sky.’ I instantly went to the piano, turned on my voice memo recorder on my phone, and started playing a chord progression. Immediately lyrics started flowing, and within fifteen minutes, I’d written ‘All the Bright Places.’” — Haley Jonay on her musical tribute to the book...