Six Impossible Things (Hardcover)

from FlanneryAC

Sometimes I like to think of my adventures in reading as an episode of MTV's old show, Singled Out. Sure, that dates me as a human being but hear me out. I'm standing at the end of an extremely long pathway and all the books that have ever been written are at the beginning. Slowly, I start weedin...

from Herenya

Six Impossible Things is about 14 year old Dan, trying to cope with various upheavals in his life: Guys, please, one life-changing shock at a time, I felt like saying. He writes himself a list of six goals - six impossible things - and then starts out to try to resolve them. I enjoyed this - it's...

from nbmars

Australian YA fiction is so regularly superior that I pounced when I saw that this 2010 book by Fiona Wood had been re-published in the U.S. The story is narrated by Dan Cereill, "nearly 15" and having to start a new school after his dad (newly out as gay) left them, the family business went bank...

from greenbreak

Well, I have to say that I have just read one of the best Young Adult novels to have crossed my path EVER! I can write this with the knowledge that out of the hundreds of books I get through each year, this is a total standout. Thank you, Fiona Wood, for creating such skillful, clever and extreme...

from devilish2

There are many delightful things about this book. The humorous internal monologue of Dan the soon-to-be 15 year old whose life has been turned upside down, the generosity of those around him, the wry look at teenagers' views of the world and at teenagers themselves. The characters are great, thor...