Away We Go — Emil Ostrovski

With an innovative format that includes interstitial documents, such as flyers, postcards, and handwritten notes, AWAY WE GO is an often funny, honest look at the struggles of first love and tragic heartbreak that will resonate with fans of the critically acclaimed GRASSHOPPER JUNGLE, by Andrew Smith, and NOGGIN, by John Corey Whaley.

Westing is not your typical school. For starters, you have to have one very important quality in order to be admitted -- you have to be dying. Every student at Westing has been diagnosed with PPV, or the Peter Pan Virus, and no one is expected to live to graduation. What do you do when you go to a high school where no one has a future or any clue how to find meaning in their remaining days?