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Award-winning writer Patrick Nesss bold and irreverent novel powerfully asks what if you weren´t the Chosen One? The one who´s supposed to fight the zombies, the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and maybe work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone blows up the high school. Again.

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Award-winning writer Patrick Ness´s bold and irreverent novel powerfully asks what if you weren´t the Chosen One? The one who´s supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week´s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life. Even if your best friend might just be the God of mountain lions... An exceptional novel from the author praised by John Green as "an insanely beautiful writer".

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Patrick Ness wuchs in den Vereinigten Staaten und auf Hawaii auf. Seit Ende der 90er-Jahre lebt er in London und ist dort als Dozent für kreatives Schreiben und Literaturkritiker für die Tageszeitung The Guardian tätig. Für seine Kinder- und Jugendbücher wurde er mehrfach ausgezeichnet, er gewann unter anderem den renommierten Costa Children´s Book Award und war auf der Auswahlliste für die Carnegie Medal.

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