Maisie is a normal sixteen-year-old, until an electrical fire caused by a lightning strike leaves her with severe burns, her face partially destroyed--she is lucky enough to get a full face transplant but she soon discovers how much her looks shaped her own identity and her relationship with those around her, including her boyfriend.
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Maisie is a normal sixteen-year-old, until an electrical fire caused by a lightning strike leaves her with severe burns, her face partially destroyed--she is lucky enough to get a full face transplant but she soon discovers how much her looks shaped her own identity and her relationship with those around her, including her boyfriend.
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THIS EMOTIONALLY GRIPPING NOVEL ABOUT A GIRL WHO GETS A FACE TRANSPLANT IS WONDER FOR A YA AUDIENCE When Maisie gets into a terrible accident, her face is partially destroyed. She's lucky enough to get a face transplant--but how do you live your life when you can't even recognize yourself anymore? She was a runner, a girlfriend, a good student . . . a normal girl. Now all that has changed. As Maisie discovers how much her looks did--and didn't--shape her relationship to the world, she has to redefine her own identity, and figure out what "lucky" really means.
Critic Reviews
“Praise for The Stone Girl : "Authentic . . . vivid and painfully truthful." -- Publishers Weekly "Chilling . . . The details show the ugliness and heartbreaking aspects of anorexia/bulimia. . . . A compelling take on a common theme in young adult literature." -- School Library Journal Praise for The Lucky Kind : "An honest, powerful, and emotional look at family secrets and falling in love." -- Justine Magazine Praise for The Beautiful Between : "Endearing, realistic, and heart-wrenching." -- The New York Post”
Praise for Faceless: A New York Public Library Best Books for Teens 2015 Faceless is gorgeous and wrenching, full of gigantic questions and even more gigantic answers about love, identity and appearance. I'm sure I'll reread it many times, as I do with my favorites. It is a vivid, compelling, beautiful, immediate novel, and Alyssa Sheinmel's writing is so true, her characters so real, that they live on long after the last page is turned. -- New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice [Sheinmel's] depiction of a disfigured adolescent girl, already searching for herself and now suddenly forced to accept this new enormity, is compelling... absorbing. -- Kirkus Reviews Fascinating... Maisie's struggle is certainly one that not many teens will have to face, but teens will identify with her struggle to accept that her old life is gone forever. The anger and grief that she feels is palpable and vividly expressed. Fans of R. J. Palacio's Wonder will also enjoy this book and relate to its similar theme about how physical appearance does not define who you really are. -- Voice of Youth Advocates A fascinating human portrait of a unique medical procedure, this work paints a complex picture of a young life impacted by a mammoth change... Give this to fans of Trisha Leaver's The Secrets We Keep and other readers ready for an all-too-gritty piece of realistic fiction. -- School Library Journal Sheinmel's prose is accessible to a wide range of readers who, for whatever reason, find themselves struggling with differences. A touching reminder that real change is rarely skin deep. -- Booklist
About the Author
Alyssa Sheinmel is the New York Times bestselling author of several novels for young adults including A Danger to Herself and Others, Faceless and Second Star. She is the co-author of iThe Haunting of Sunshine Girl/i and its sequel, iThe Awakening of Sunshine Girl/i. Alyssa grew up in Northern California and New York and currently lives in New York City. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @AlyssaSheinmel, or visit her online at alyssasheinmel.com.
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