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Warhead: The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World
An often hilarious and always relevant memoir about one teen boy's battle with brain cancer and his...
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An often hilarious and always relevant memoir about one teen boy's battle with brain cancer and his Starlight Children's Foundation wish: to meet Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia and plead for nuclear disarmament and world peace. It's 1986, and Jeff is an average fifteen-year-old: he thinks a lot about dating, he bounces around with his friends, and he's trying his hardest to get a car. Conversely, the world around him feels crazy: the United States and the Soviet Union are at glaring odds, with their leaders in a standoff, and that awful word, nuclear, is on everyone's mind. Then, boom--Jeff learns that he has brain cancer and it's likely terminal. Well, that puts a damper on his summer plans and romantic prospects, doesn't it? Jeff's family rallies around him, but they are fiercely complicated--especially Jeff's father, a man who can't say I love you even during the worst of Jeff's treatment. So when the Starlight Children's Foundation offers to grant Jeff a wish, he makes one certain to earn his father's respect: he asks to travel to Moscow and meet with Mikhail Gorbachev to discuss nuclear disarmament and ending the Cold War. Nothing like achieving world peace to impress a distant father, right? Jeff has always been one to aim high. Jeff's story is dark, but it's also funny, romantic, and surprising. As his life swings from incredibly ordinary to absolutely incredible, he grapples with the big questions of mortality, war, love, hope, and miracles. A sweet but unsentimental account of a truly fascinating nuclear childhood. Henigson had me at 'Gorbachev.' --Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Little Failure and Lake Success
It's a tale well-told--always gripping, often heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting. --Booklist
Author: Jeff Henigson
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 07/02/2019
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780525647904
Audience: Young Adult
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 511882 / Warhead: The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2019
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2019
School Library Journal 07/01/2019 pg. 59
Booklist 06/01/2019 pg. 74
About the Author
Jeff Henigson grew up in South Pasadena, California. After a teenage battle with brain cancer, he attended university at the London School of Economics and graduate school at Columbia University's School of International and Political Affairs. He has worked for UNICEF and the United Nations in humanitarian emergencies, and for a nonprofit in human rights. He has lived in London, Seoul, Rome, Beijing, New York, St. Petersburg (Russia, not Florida), and Ko Samui, a beautiful island in the Gulf of Thailand. Today he calls Seattle home. You can find him paddling on Lake Washington or, alternatively, on Twitter at @jeffhenigson or on his website at jeffhenigson.com. His memoir Warhead is his debut work.
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It's a tale well-told--always gripping, often heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting. --Booklist
Author: Jeff Henigson
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 07/02/2019
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780525647904
Audience: Young Adult
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 511882 / Warhead: The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2019
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2019
School Library Journal 07/01/2019 pg. 59
Booklist 06/01/2019 pg. 74
About the Author
Jeff Henigson grew up in South Pasadena, California. After a teenage battle with brain cancer, he attended university at the London School of Economics and graduate school at Columbia University's School of International and Political Affairs. He has worked for UNICEF and the United Nations in humanitarian emergencies, and for a nonprofit in human rights. He has lived in London, Seoul, Rome, Beijing, New York, St. Petersburg (Russia, not Florida), and Ko Samui, a beautiful island in the Gulf of Thailand. Today he calls Seattle home. You can find him paddling on Lake Washington or, alternatively, on Twitter at @jeffhenigson or on his website at jeffhenigson.com. His memoir Warhead is his debut work.
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