TEEN AUTHOR EVENT - DAVID LEVITHAN: LOVE IS THE HIGHER LAW

TEEN EVENT - DAVID LEVITHAN: LOVE IS THE HIGHER LAW      4PM

Scholastic Books editor David Levithan, author of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, visits with his new teen novel, Love is the Higher Law. The lives of three teens are altered forever on September 11, 2001. Claire, a high school junior, has to get to her younger brother in his classroom. Jasper, a college sophomore from Brooklyn, wakes to his parents’ frantic calls from Korea, wondering if he’s okay. Peter, a classmate of Claire’s, has to make his way back to school as everything happens around him. Here are three teens whose intertwining lives are reshaped by this catastrophic event.

SEATING begins one hour before the event. Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited.

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Love Is the Higher Law (Hardcover)

By David Levithan

$15.99

ISBN-13: 9780375834684
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 08/01/2009

The lives of three teens—Claire, Jasper, and Peter—are altered forever on September 11, 2001. Levithan has written a novel of loss and grief, but also one of hope and redemption as his characters slowly learn to move forward in their lives, despite being changed forever.

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