This is a story about love.It's also a story about hate, which is why I left New York in the first place. You don't fly halfway across the world to live with a bunch of people you never met, just for a laugh.
I guess if I'd known where it was all going to lead, I might have thought twice about stepping onto that plane. I might have worried a little more about Edmond being my cousin.
And me being 15.
But I didn't. And in the end, those things didn't matter as much as you think they would.
In the end, the world had bigger things to worry about than us.
Meg Rosoff's won the 2005 Michael L. Printz Award, which is bestowed upon a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.
