Durante le vacanze di Natale, Max e Kendall si ritrovano per caso a New York. Sono passati sei mesi dal loro primo bacio che entrambi considerano 'un errore', e molte cose sono cambiate. Lei è appena tornata da un semestre trascorso in Europa e desidera scappare dalla vita ordinaria che la aspetta a casa. Lui ha rimandato il college di un anno per amore della sua storica, ma ormai ex, ragazza, e non sa cosa fare della sua vita. Dopo avere assistito a un tragico incidente, Max e Kendall, logorati dal senso di colpa per non essere intervenuti, decidono di compiere sette atti di gentilezza verso persone sconosciute prima del nuovo anno, insieme. La sfida porterà i due protagonisti a fantasticare sulla vita degli altri e a riflettere sulla propria, e ad avvicinarsi sempre di più.

Readers of John Green, Sarah Dessen, and Laurie Halse Anderson will be touched by the emotional depth and realistic characters of Jennifer Castle’s YA novel You Look Different in Real Life.

Justine charmed the nation in a documentary film featuring five kindergartners. Five years later, her edgy sense of humor made her the star of a second movie that caught up with the lives of the same five kids.

Now Justine is sixteen, and another sequel is in the works. Justine isn’t ready to have viewers examining her life again. She feels like a disappointment, not at all like the girl everyone fell in love with in the first two movies. But, ready or not, she and the other four teens will soon be in front of the cameras again.

Smart, fresh, and frequently funny, You Look Different in Real Life is a piercing novel about life in an age where the lines between what’s personal and what’s public aren’t always clear.

Readers of John Green, Sarah Dessen, and Laurie Halse Anderson will be touched by the emotional depth and realistic characters of Jennifer Castle’s YA novel You Look Different in Real Life.

Justine charmed the nation in a documentary film featuring five kindergartners. Five years later, her edgy sense of humor made her the star of a second movie that caught up with the lives of the same five kids.

Now Justine is sixteen, and another sequel is in the works. Justine isn’t ready to have viewers examining her life again. She feels like a disappointment, not at all like the girl everyone fell in love with in the first two movies. But, ready or not, she and the other four teens will soon be in front of the cameras again.

Smart, fresh, and frequently funny, You Look Different in Real Life is a piercing novel about life in an age where the lines between what’s personal and what’s public aren’t always clear.

The Beginning of After is a story of hope and healing from Jennifer Castle, a powerful new voice in teen fiction.

When Laurel’s family dies in a horrific car accident, she struggles to put her life back together. She is now connected to David Kaufman, who lives down the block, and who lost his mother in the same crash. Both of their lives change—but not in the ways that they thought…

Castle blends tragedy with romance, teen angst, and wit in The Beginning of After, a bittersweet, powerful debut novel that stands as a testament to how people can survive the unthinkable.

Anyone who?s had something truly crappy happen to them will tell you: It?s all about Before and After. What I?m talking about here is the ka-pow, shake-you-to-your-core-and-turn-your-bones-to-plastic kind of crappy.

Sixteen-year-old Laurel?s world changes instantly when her parents and brother are killed in a terrible car accident. Behind the wheel is the father of her bad-boy neighbor, David Kaufman, whose mother is also killed. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Laurel navigates a new reality in which she and her best friend grow apart, boys may or may not be approaching her out of pity, overpowering memories lurk everywhere, and Mr. Kaufman is comatose but still very much alive. Through it all there is David, who swoops in and out of Laurel?s life and to whom she finds herself attracted against her better judgment. She will forever be connected to him by their mutual loss?a connection that will change them both in unexpected ways.

Jennifer Castle?s debut novel is a heart-wrenching, surprisingly witty testament to how drastically life can change in the span of a single moment.