TY - SER
KW - teenagers
KW - high schools
KW - leukemia
KW - Hebrew school
KW - Black Americans
KW - Jewish Americans
AU - Jesse Andrews
AB - Among all of the cliques at Benson High School, Greg Gaines, 17, is friendless. Earl Jackson is his sidekick, as the two, with little else in common, like to write and film odd movies. Things change when Greg’s mother guilt-trips him into a forced mitzvah: making sick-calls on Rachel Kushner, a former Hebrew school classmate now dying of leukemia.
C1 - 2010s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Point Breeze; Frick Park; Squirrel Hill; Carnegie Mellon University; Homewood; Lawrenceville; Bloomfield; Oakland; Schenley High School
C4 - Children’s; Young Adult
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Schenley High School is disguised as Benson High School.
N2 - Among all of the cliques at Benson High School, Greg Gaines, 17, is friendless. Earl Jackson is his sidekick, as the two, with little else in common, like to write and film odd movies. Things change when Greg’s mother guilt-trips him into a forced mitzvah: making sick-calls on Rachel Kushner, a former Hebrew school classmate now dying of leukemia.
PB - Amulet Books
PP - New York
PY - 2012
RN - Jesse Andrews (1982- ), educated at Pittsburgh's Schenley High School and Harvard University, is an author and screenwriter.
EP - 295 p.
TI - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
ER -