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Just in Case

Meg Rosoff

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#6245 of 8,085 books · #612 in Young Adult

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2006).

Just in Case won the Carnegie Medal. David Case never questions his ordinary suburban life -- until one fateful day, a brush with death brings him face to face with his own mortality. Suddenly, everywhere he looks he sees catastrophe, disaster, the ruin of the human race, the demise of the planet...not to mention (to pinpoint the exact source of his anxiety) possible pain and suffering for himself. So he changes his name, reinvents his appearance, and falls in love with the seductive Agnes Bee -- in the hope that he'll become unrecognizable to Fate and saved from his own doom. With his imaginary greyhound in tow, Justin Case struggles to maintain his new image and above all, to survive in a world where twists of fate wait for him around every corner.

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Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN-13
9780452289376
Topics
Identity and reinventionFear of death and fateComing of age

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